Imphal, June 26 -- A makeshift transit camp-cum-hideout set up by underground militants on floating huts at Loktak Lake in Manipur was dismantled following the arrest of a cadre from the proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party (People's War Group), KCP (PWG), the police reported on Thursday.

Acting on intelligence inputs that the floating huts were being used as a transit camp and hideout by militants, a joint team of central and Manipur police launched a cordon and search operation at the suspected location in Loktak Lake.

The operation resulted in the arrest of one active KCP (PWG) cadre, identified as Mutum Manaocha Singh @ Khullakpa (44), a resident of Tronglaobi Makha Leikai in Bishnupur district.

Police arrested him along with weap...