Arms, explosives recovered
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 19 2023:
One .303 rifle with one empty magazine, one locally made 9 mm pistol with one empty magazine and three HE hand grenades were recovered during a search operation at Kakching Mantak ITI Panmameu Road today.
Acting on a tip off that some unknown miscreants were hiding arms at Kakching Mantak ITI Panmamei Road, a combined team of Kakching commando unit and Kakching district police conducted a search operation at Kakching Mantak ITI Panmamei Road area.
During the operation, Kakching Mantak ITI Panmamei area was thoroughly searched leading to the recovery of arms and explosives.
The recovered items were seized at around 6.20 am by observing necessary formalities and handed over to Kakching police station for further necessary action, said sources.
Further, one factory made pistol with magazine, one countrymade pistol with extended magazine, five numbers of 36 HE hand grenade, two numbers of 80 (WP) grenade, seven numbers of 9 mm ammunition, three numbers of 5.56 mm ammunition and 15 numbers of 7.62 mm ammunition were recovered in another search operation carried out at Gwarok Reserved Hill range, South East of Pechi.
The search operation which continued from 4.30 am to 6.30 am today was conducted by a combined team of Special Operation (SOG) Thoubal, COB Lilong, COB Thoubal, 33 AR, Thoubal commandos and Thoubal district police.