Corcom cadres held in Manipur

Imphal, Feb 21 (ANI): Imphal West District Police recently apprehended five activists of CorCom, a conglomerate of seven different militant outfits in the state.

After the arrest of Seram Sanatomba, the police apprehended four more cadres identified as Paonam Santa, Maibam Michael, Chongtham Bobicha and Koijam Jiten. Two hand grenades were recovered from them. These cadres were involved in extortion and hurling of grenades in Imphal.

"The five accused cadres admitted that they are involved in hurling hand grenades at the house of Congress candidate and from them we recovered two-hand grenades," said N Madhunimai Singh, MPS, DSP, Imphal West. (ANI)