Two arrested, hand grenade seized
Source: The Sangai Express
Bishnupur, November 26 2017:
A combined team of Bishnupur commando and 42 Assam Rifles arrested two underground militants and seized a hand grenade from Ngangkhalawai, under Moirang police station, at around 6pm yesterday.
According to reliable source, on receiving specific information about the presence of some underground militants in and around the general areas of Moirang and Kumbi, a combined team of Bishnupur district commando and a column of 42 Assam Rifles, under the overall supervision of Bishnupur SP, H Jogeshchadra, established a spot motor vehicle check point and quick response team at Ngangkhalawai near a petrol pump along Tiddim road and conducted frisking and checking.
During the frisking and checking by the combined team, a Maruti Van refuelling at the petrol pump was surprised by the presence of the security personnel and tried to speed away.
The security personnel stopped the van bearing registration number AS-28-5874 .
Due to the suspicious nature of the two occupants of the Maruti van, the security personnel carried out a search of the vehicle and found a hand grenade wrapped in carbon paper inside a box kept hidden near the driver's seat.
Accordingly both the occupants of the vehicle were detained by the security forces for verification.
During preliminary interrogation, the two individuals were identified as Md Aslam Khan (28) s/o (L) Md Abdul Razag of Moreh Ward number 5 and Labuktongbam Md Najir Khan (36) s/o Labuktongbam Md Abdul Ali of Sora Bazar Mamang.
The security personnel also recovered one mobile phone from the possession of the detained individual from the spot.
During the preliminary interrogation, they revealed that the recovered hand grenade was handed to Aslam Khan yesterday morning near his residence by one Suresh Singh of UNLF from Moreh Turel Wangma Ward number 7 .
Hence both individuals were arrested from the spot after observing necessary formalities and handed over to Moirang police station for taking up necessary legal actions.