Kakching Police in Manipur recovered arms and
ammunition during search operations conducted in the Wangoo Laipham area, said the
officials on Wednesday.
As per police, the search operations were conducted on
Tuesday between 3.30 and 7.30 in the evening hours.
During the operation, many houses in Wangoo Laipham
Chingya were searched thoroughly and suspected areas of the Wangoo Laipham
Manya hill range were sanitized.
Some arms and ammunition were recovered from the hill
range at Wangoo Laipham Mangya near the cemetery, said the police.
The recovered items include one AK 47, five SLR, one
.303 rifle (modified), one Insas rifle, three .303 rifle, two sbbl, 11 HE
grenades, one Chinese hand grenade, three wp gren MK I, 15 grenade launching
tube, small amount of suspected pek along with fuse, six detonators, two
detonator box, six ballistic cartridges, three empty cases of 12 bore, one BP
vest, two walkie talkie (baofeng), one empty AK -47 magazine, one empty Insas
rifle magazine, four empty .303 rifle magazine, five empty SLR rifle magazine
and one local made pipe bomb.
As per officials, it was a joint operation with a team
of commando (CDO) unit-Kakching, Village Defence Force (VDF) personnerl of
Kakching, personnel of Manipur Police Telecom Organisation (MPTO),
Office-in-charge (OC)-Wangoo PS, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Sugnu
PS, teams of D-Coy 136 BSF and B-Coy 167 BSF led by Additional SP (ops)
Kakching under the supervision of SP/KCG Th Vikramjit Singh and overall
supervision of DIG/R-II H Jogeshchandra Singh.
The recovered items were seized from the spot and
handed over to OC WNG-PS for further necessary action, the officials added.
ANI
