Security forces recover 86 arms & nearly 974 different types of ammunition in Manipur
Manipur Police said that in the early hours of Tuesday, on the basis of specific Intelligence reports regarding the presence of a large cache of arms and ammunition stashed in different areas of five Imphal valley districts, simultaneous search operations were launched at different locations.
The statement stated joint teams of Manipur Police, Army, Assam Rifles, Border Security Force (BSF), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) recovered a large cache of arms and a huge number of ammunition and war-like stores from the five Imphal valley districts of Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Bishnupur, and Kakching.
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Of the 86 arms recovered, 16 are Self-Loading Rifles (SLRs), followed by nine rifles, five each of AK series rifles and 303 rifles, three INSAS rifles, 19 pistols, two carbines, 16 SBBL and Bore Action rifles, two anti-riot guns, and 11 other different types of guns.
The recovered ammunition includes grenades, high explosives, mortar shells, tube launching, and Improvised Explosive Devices. Forty-one assorted magazines and six wireless handsets were also recovered during the operations.
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It said that the coordinated operations were launched simultaneously at multiple sites in the peripheral and suspected areas of the five valley districts.
These continued intelligence-led operations represent a major accomplishment for the Manipur Police and security forces in their continued mission to restore peace, uphold public order, and safeguard the lives and property of citizens, the statement said.
On July 4, the security forces in joint operations recovered 203 arms, mostly sophisticated and around 160 different types of ammunition from four hilly districts -- Tengnoupal, Kangpokpi, Chandel, and Churachandpur.
Earlier on June 14, security forces in joint operations recovered 328 arms and around 9,300 different types of ammunition from five Imphal valley districts -- Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Bishnupur, and Kakching.
In a series of joint operations in Manipur, the Army and other Central and state security forces have arrested ten hardcore militants.
Manipur Police also arrested six more militants of different outfits during the past 24 hours from Bishnupur, Thoubal and Imphal West districts.
A Defence spokesman said that the intelligence-based, coordinated joint operations resulted in the arrest of ten militants of various hill and Valley-based banned extremist outfits.
He said joint operations were conducted during the past few days in the five valley and hill districts of Kangpokpi, Bishnupur, Tengnoupal, Imphal West and Imphal East.
The Army, during the operations, used specialised resources like explosive detection dogs. Army and Assam Rifles formations under the Spear Corps launched a series of operations in coordination with Manipur Police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
Meanwhile, Manipur Police arrested six more militants of different outfits during the past 24 hours from Bishnupur, Thoubal and Imphal West districts. The arrested extremists belonged to Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) and People's Liberation Army (PLA) outfits.
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