Imphal: Security forces apprehended an active cadre of the Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s War Group) (KCP-PWG) following a recent operation in Manipur‘s Bishnupur District, police said on Thursday.
The operation on June 24 led to the dismantling of a makeshift transit camp-cum-hideout set up by underground militants on Loktak Lake and the recovery of a significant cache of arms and ammunition.
Acting on intelligence inputs that the floating huts were being used as a transit camp and hideout by militants, a joint team of central and Manipur police launched a cordon and search operation at the suspected location in Loktak Lake.
The arrested individual has been identified as Mutum Manaocha Singh alias Khullakpa (44), a resident of Tronglaobi Makha Leikai.
He was taken into custody from one of the floating huts located in Loktak Lake at Champu Khangpok, near the Karang area under Keibul Lamjao Police Station in Bishnupur district.
During the operation, the team seized one 9 mm pistol with a magazine, and two live rounds of 9 mm ammunition.
“The floating huts were evidently used as a makeshift transit camp and hideout by militants. After a sweeping search was done inside the huts, logistic items such as blankets, gas stove, table fan, pressure cooker, plates etc. which were utilized by cadres of underground organisations were recovered. The huts have since been dismantled,” Manipur Police posted on X.
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Based on information disclosed by the arrested cadre, a second operation was conducted at Nachou Awang Leikai in the same district, resulting in the recovery of two SMG carbines with two magazines, one MA-1 rifle with three magazines, and thirty-one rounds of 5.56 mm live ammunition.
