Guwahati, April 12 -- Security forces deployed in the Northeast state of Manipur have recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition, explosives and war-like stores during different operations conducted over the past 24 hours.

Acting on specific intelligence input on the presence of arms and ammunition in Thoubal district's Pechi area, troops of the Assam Rifles, along with the Manipur police and state commandos, carried out a search operation in the area on Friday (April 12).

The search operation resulted in the recovery of a bolt action rifle, a 9mm carbine, a 9mm pistol, four 51mm mortar bombs, eight grenades, ammunition and other war-like stores. The recovered arms and ammos were later handed over to the local police, the Assam Rifles s...