Kohima: Assam Rifles in Mon district busted an ‘ad hoc transit camp’ of various insurgent groups, including NSCN-K, and recovered arms, ammunition, war-like stores and huge quantity of rice on June 14, an official statement said on Monday.
According to the statement, issued by the Inspector General of Assam Rifles (North), two NSCN-K cadres, including an officer who was in charge of Chenmoho Camp under Aboi police station of Mon district, were arrested during the operation.
AR seized one pistol, one 12-bore rifle, several live rounds of various calibers, explosive and many other war-like stores besides 3,000 kg of rice.
The statement said the interrogation of the arrested cadres revealed that the recovered rice was actually meant for people from ‘below poverty line’.
The house from which the recoveries were made belonged to Yannon Konyak of Chenmoho village.
The cadres were using the house as a transit point for insurgent groups who are active in Myanmar in violation of Cease Fire Ground Rules and as a warehouse for storing the supplies.
The arrested cadres had been handed over to Aboi police station, the statement added.
In a separate statement, the IGAR (N) said on June 11, the security force confiscated one AK 56 and 60 rounds of ammunition from an NSCN cadre, identified as Langkhuh Konyak. (UNI)
