27-04-2025
Security forces arrest 12 militants from banned outfits in Manipur, recover arms, cash, & documents
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Security forces in Manipur arrested 12 militants belonging to different banned outfits from three different districts in the past 24 hours.A police official said the arrested militants belonged to different factions of the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), PREPAK and the United National Liberation Front (UNLF).The militants were involved in abduction, forcible collection of money from contractors, government employees, traders and even common people in Imphal East, Imphal West and Kakching the 12 militants, eight ultras were arrested from the Imphal East district, while three from Imphal West and one from Kakching district. Some arms and ammunition, wireless sets, cash amounts, Aadhaar cards, incriminating documents, two two-wheelers, and 15 mobile handsets were recovered from the militants' official said that a lone PREPAK militant identified as Takhellambam Meipaksana Singh alias Korou alias Biken was also involved in many crimes, including the locking of a gas agency office in Imphal East district last week, and he was working under a lady self-styled PREPAK commander, Sana, who has been arrested by Manipur Police recently and is now under police police official said that as part of the ongoing search and area domination operations, the security forces recovered some sophisticated arms and ammunition from Pherzawl and Kakching districts.
