Manipur: Arms, ammunition recovered in Churachandpur
IFP Bureau1 Feb 2024
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The recovered items are one SMG Carbine bearing registration No. N215505939 along with Magazine and 7 live rounds, Country made 9 mm marked as 253/2013/BO ‘A’ KM without Magazine and 10 nos of 36 Hand Grenade Bombs without detonator.
As many as 17 more arms, 12 ammunition and 10 bombs were recovered from various parts of Manipur on Thursday.
Assam Rifles recovered arms, ammunition and explosives headed for Manipur, while seven more arms and 218 ammunition have been recovered from Imphal East district.
Twenty-five rounds of AK-47 along with one magazine was seized from them.
Forty weapons (mostly automatics), mortars, ammunition and other warlike stores have been recovered so far during the Area Domination Operations carried out in the hills and valley area of Manipur.
A team of district commando, Imphal West seized a 9 mm pistol along with ammunition from the arrested smugglers.
Three persons were arrested on February 4 following the allegation that they were active members of the banned UNLF and were involved in an illegal transaction of arms and ammunition.
The AR and Manipur police team seized a large amount of arms and ammunition comprising three 9 mm pistols, two hand grenades, one radio set, six detonators, half kilogram explosive, M-79 grenade launcher rounds and one safety fuse during an operation.
As a preventive measure taken up for the forthcoming Republic Day celebration and the state general election 2022, security forces conducted an extensive search operation in Bishnupur district.
The weapon were seized following a disclosure from a proscribed UG group member, who was nabbed by the joint police team during a house-to-house search operation conducted at Huikap area on Sunday.
The arms and ammunition were recovered from a residence of one Thangjalet Haokip located at Moreh Ward no.7, S Moljol during a search operation conducted at around 5:30 pm.
The arms and ammunition were found packed in a polythene bag which was buried inside the earth at the forest near Khomunnom village.
A joint operation was launched by a team of Mantripukhri Battalion and Wangoi Police.
Based on specific intelligence inputs about the movement of insurgents in the general area of Phaikoh, an operation was planned and multiple teams were launched, the AR said
Arms and ammunition were seized during a search operation at Oinam Mayang Pat area, while two women drug peddlers were arrested in Kakching.
The arms and ammunition were found during a combined search operation conducted at Kodompokpi in Imphal West