Police clarify on arms looting
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 05 2023:
Police Control Room Manipur (PCRM) has clarified on new reports on Saturday highlighting looting of arms and ammunitions from different police stations and armouries in the valley districts only.
In a release, PCRM conveyed that the information is misleading to the extent that arms and ammunitions were looted from different police stations and armouries of both hill and valley districts.
Security forces have been continuously raiding in the hill and valley areas to recover the looted arms and ammunitions.
As a result of which 1057 arms and 14,201 ammunitions have been recovered in the valley districts and 138 arms and 121 ammunitions have been recovered in the hill districts, it added.
The release said that in connection to August 3 incident, the security forces have been able to recover 15 arms.
On Saturday also there was an attempt to snatch weapons from a police team at Toupokpi police outpost in Lilong Chajing, Imphal-West district.
However, police were alerted and they could chase and recover all the four weapons.
One person was arrested and the car used by the miscreants was also recovered, it informed.
The release also mentioned that raids are going on to arrest other culprits.
On Saturday evening in a gunfight between combined team of 5/9 GR & 21 SF with militants at A Mungchamkom village under New Keithelmanbi police station, one individual who is cadre of non-SoO organisation was arrested and one SLR along with one magazine and 50 rounds were seized from his possession, it further said.