IMPHAL: With ten militants of various banned outfits arrested during the past 24 hours, joint central and state forces intensified their counterinsurgency operation to nab the armed extremists.
A senior police official said the ten militants arrested in six districts – Imphal West, Imphal East, Bishnupur, Kakching, Tengnoupal and Tamenglong -- belong to Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Out of ten militants, one each active cadre of PREPAK and PLA outfits was arrested from the Tengnoupal district, which shares an unfenced border with Myanmar.