UPPK cadre surrenders with arms cache

IMPHAL, May 20: Security Forces of Red Shield Division recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition buried under ground by a cadre of UPPK in the year 2007 at the foothills of Thangjing ridge.

According to a release of PIB, the cadre identified as SS Capt Moirangthem Raja @ Chingkheinganba @ Meiba resident of Nakhalawai, Moirang, Bishnupur district surrendered to the SF and helped in locating the cache which he buried in 2007 when the camps were shifted to Myanmar.

The cache included four carbine machine guns, four magazines, two .22mm revolvers, 42 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition and two rounds of .22mm ammunition. The surrendered cadre SS Capt Moirangthem Raja @ Chingkheinganba @ Meiba of UPPK joined the group in the year 2001, the release added.

It then stated, thereafter he was actively involved in various anti-social activities in Manipur, Nagaland and Myanmar. Subsequently, he fled to Kathmandu, Nepal in the year 2011 and was operating from there. He came to Manipur on May 17, 2013. He disclosed the location of huge cache of arms at Thangjing ridge, which was recovered after thorough search Op by SF under the aegis of Red Shield Division.