IMPHAL: Responding to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla’s appeal, 48 more looted arms, including many sophisticated weapons, have returned to the police during the past 24 hours, officials said.
A police official said that in all, 32 arms and a large cache of ammunition were surrendered in different districts on Wednesday, while 16 different types of looted arms and a huge cache of ammunition were returned to the security forces, including Manipur Police, on Tuesday.
Senior police officials said that so far over 771 looted and illegally held weapons, including many sophisticated arms and a huge cache of ammunition, were returned to security forces since the governor made the appeal for the first time on February 20.
According to various reports during the ethnic riots between Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities since May 3, 2023, more than 6,000 different types of sophisticated arms and lakhs of pieces of different types of ammunition were looted from the police stations and outposts by the mobs and militants. The security forces, so far, have recovered a substantial number of the looted arms.
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