The Maoists had planned to blow up a pressure cooker near a police station with two kilos of explosives, officials said.
However, as soon as the police found out about the sinister plot, a police party was sent in to look for the bomb, Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police Nilotpal said, adding that the pressure cooker was buried underground near the footpath inside the forest.
A bomb disposal squad rushed in and searched the forest with various advanced equipment. They soon found a suspicious spot and destroyed the bomb.
Investigations revealed there were two kilograms of high-intensity explosives inside the pressure cooker buried about one-and-a-half to two feet below the ground.