Imphal, April 25 -- Central and State security forces carried out a joint operation in the early hours of Thursday and seized a large cache of arms, ammunition, and explosives, including a rocket launcher, from a remote area in Churachandpur district of Manipur.

Acting on a tip-off received from intelligence sources, the joint team launched a swift search operation in Teijang village, located under the jurisdiction of the Churachandpur district police station.

The operation, which began in the early hours of the morning, lasted for nearly four hours and involved the use of metal detectors to locate hidden weaponry in a suspected militant transit camp.Security personnel recovered a significant quantity of warlike materials abandoned by m...