Overview
- Security forces carried out coordinated intelligence‑based raids that resulted in eight to nine militants being detained on Monday, with arrests reported across valley and hill districts.
- A 42‑year‑old man described by police as a self‑styled major of KCP (Apunba) was arrested in Kakching and is being interrogated.
- Searches recovered a broad arsenal including an M16, a sniper rifle, multiple assault and service rifles, pistols, grenades and about 20 detonators, and bomb disposal teams destroyed six powerful IEDs on site.
- Manipur Police conducted the operations with Central Armed Police Forces, the Army and Assam Rifles and have set up nakas and armed escorts on NH‑37 while seized weapons undergo forensic examination.
- The raids extend the intensified counter‑insurgency effort launched after the May 2023 ethnic violence and, if followed by sustained enforcement at the Myanmar border, could reduce local extortion, kidnappings and disruption to highway commerce.