Imphal (Manipur) : The troops of Assam had huge cache of arms and ammunition, explosives in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, which were smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar into India.
According to the reports, based on intelligence input, the troops of 6 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector Assam Rifles and 27 Assam Rifles of 10 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) had launched an operation and recovered huge quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives.
An official of Assam Rifles said that, the consignment of the weapons and ammunitions which included two GSG-5 German rifles with four magazines, one Uzkon semi automatic shot gun with three magazines, two 9 mm Beretta pistols with four magazines, one 9 mm Sigsauer pistol with two magazines, cordtex, detonators and more than 6000 rounds of ammunition of various kinds was being transported from Ukhrul towards Imphal.
The recovered arms, ammunition and explosives were smuggled from Myanmar by suspected militants.
Over 17 militant groups including Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Coordination Committee (CorCom) (six valley based groups), Manipur Naga Revolutionary Front (MNRF), National Socialist Council of Nagaland -Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K), People's United Liberation Front (PULF), Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) are active in Manipur and most of outfit groups have taken shelter in Myanmar soil.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
