A police officer stated the militants had been arrested from the districts of Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Kakching. They belong to Kangleipak Communist Social gathering (KCP) and Individuals's Liberation Military (PLA)/Revolutionary Individuals's Entrance (RPF).
PLA is one in all Manipur's oldest militant teams. It's principally energetic within the Imphal valley area together with its political wing, RPF.
The arrested militants had been concerned in recruiting youths for RPF/PLA. They had been additionally concerned in extortion from folks and authorities officers and mediation in mortgage restoration instances via intimidation.
Safety forces have additionally recovered 2,000 extremely addictive methamphetamine tablets price about Rs 16.66 lakh from a home at Tuibong village in Churachandpur district. In addition to, caches of arms and ammunition had been recovered from Imphal West and Kangpokpi districts.
The arms recovered embrace one 9 mm carbine submachine gun together with one journal, one .303 rifle with {a magazine}, a 9 mm pistol with one journal loaded with some bullets, one .32 pistol together with one journal, 10 regionally made bolt motion single-barrelled weapons and one pull mechanism rifle.A big cache of various kinds of ammunition was additionally recovered from the 2 districts.The official stated safety forces are persevering with search operations and space domination within the fringe and susceptible areas throughout districts.