Militant Group KCP Hideout Busted, Looted Arms Recovered: Manipur Police
Imphal:
A day after armed cadres of the militant outfit Kangleipak Communist Get together (KCP) looted a number of arms and a big amount of ammunition from an outpost of the Manipur Rifles within the state’s Thoubal district, the police personnel recovered a lot of the arms and ammunition and in addition arrested an extremist, an official stated on Sunday.
A police officer stated that on Saturday night time, round 30 armed cadres of the suspected KCP outfitted with refined weapons, breached the safety layers at one police outpost at Kakmayai in Thoubal District and overpowered the police personnel deployed on the put up.
The armed group got here in three autos and looted at the very least six SLRs, three AK rifles and a big cache of ammunition from the outpost, he stated.
The safety personnel instantly launched a search operation and detained a KCP cadre recognized as Hijam Ningthem Singh (49).
In the course of the additional course of investigation and relentless search operations at totally different places, Manipur Police recovered on Sunday afternoon recovered three AK rifles and 5 SLRs, which had been out of the 9 looted arms, at Ngamukhong foothill space.
Additional, as part of follow-up operations, safety forces performed large combing operations round Ningel, Malom, Toubul and Langathel.
On the night time of 08/02/2025, round 30 armed miscreants outfitted with refined weapons, breached at one police outpost at Kakmayai underneath Thoubal District and overpowered the police personnel deployed on the put up. The armed miscreants then looted 09 (9) arms (06 nos. of SLR… pic.twitter.com/eKNMbSiuh6
— Manipur Police (@manipur_police) February 9, 2025
Within the operation, one hideout of KCP was busted at Langathel Chingkhong space and recovered a big cache of ammunition and incriminating paperwork which included 48 stay rounds of Insas and AK ammunition, 25 empty instances of various ammunition, grenades, and large cache of several types of ammunition.
The police additionally recovered a binocular, one Gypsy automobile, 5 bullet-proof vests, three armour helmets and numerous army fatigues and different miscellaneous gadgets.
Numerous official and unofficial studies stated that throughout the ethnic riots which broke out in Manipur on Might 3, 2023, over 6,000 several types of refined arms and lakhs of various ammunition had been looted from the police stations and police outposts by the mobs, attackers and militants.
Nonetheless, a big variety of looted arms and ammunition have been recovered to date and searches by the Central and state safety forces are on to get better the remaining weapons.
These arms have been enjoying a really crucial position in exacerbating the violence in Manipur with each village volunteers and militants in each the valley and hilly areas possessing large refined arms and ammunition.
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, who submitted his resignation on Sunday, the Residence Division and plenty of different political dignitaries on plenty of events urged the looters to return the looted arms and ammunition to the police, in any other case, the suitable authorities would take authorized motion.
