Imphal, Feb. 25 -- Police in Manipur and other security personnel conducted a series of sweeping operations across the state on Tuesday destroying nearly eight acres of poppy plantation, arresting five active cadres belonging to different outfits, and recovering a significant cache of arms, ammunition and tactical equipment, police said on Wednesday.
At the Sadim Hill Range under Senapati police station in Senapati district, where a combined team of security forces, Forest Department personnel and an executive magistrate descended on fields of illicitly cultivated poppy and systematically destroyed approximately eight acres of standing crop.
Two makeshift huts that had been erected at the site presumably used as shelters by those tending ...