Imphal, Feb. 28 -- Security forces conducted a series of operations across different districts of Manipur, leading to the recovery of a large cache of arms and ammunition, arrest of several militant cadres and an alleged extortionist, seizure of narcotics, and destruction of illicit poppy cultivation, police said on Saturday.
Security forces, in a series of operations conducted on Friday, recovered a substantial quantity of arms and war-like stores from Sangaithel Makha Leikai area under Patsoi Police Station in Imphal West district. The items seized included one modified .303 rifle without magazine, two locally made bolt-action single barrel guns, four pistols each with a magazine, two No.36 HE grenades without detonators, one HE bomb, 15...