{"id":5531,"date":"2025-11-16T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:18:34","slug":"wanted-rpf-pla-major-arrested-in-imphal-huge-cache-of-arms-unearthed-in-kakching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/wanted-rpf-pla-major-arrested-in-imphal-huge-cache-of-arms-unearthed-in-kakching\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted RPF\/PLA Major Arrested in Imphal; Huge Cache of Arms Unearthed in Kakching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joint team of <strong>Manipur Police, CRPF<\/strong> and <strong>Assam Rifles<\/strong> on Sunday arrested a self-styled Major of the RPF\/PLA, identified as <strong>Koijam Ibochouba<\/strong> alias<strong> Inao<\/strong> alias<strong> Sumo<\/strong> alias<strong> Somo<\/strong> alias<strong> Pansareng (45)<\/strong> from a rented house at Sagolband Nepra Menjor Leikai under Imphal Police Station, Imphal West.<\/p>\n<p>Ibochouba, originally from Yairipok Malom Mamang Leikai and currently staying at Kwakeithel Laishram Leikai, is a wanted insurgent linked to the 2017 ambush on 4 AR personnel at Sajik Tampak.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his disclosure, security forces recovered a massive cache of arms and ammunition buried inside a plastic drum at a farm in Kharungpat, Kakching District. The seized items include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 M-16 rifle<\/li>\n<li>8 SLR rifles<\/li>\n<li>1 .303 LMG<\/li>\n<li>2 .303 rifles<\/li>\n<li>190 rounds of Amogh carbine ammunition<\/li>\n<li>30 rounds of SLR ammunition<\/li>\n<li>1 detonator<\/li>\n<li>32 SLR magazines<\/li>\n<li>4 7.62 LMG magazines<\/li>\n<li>3 .303 magazines<\/li>\n<li>6 .303 LMG magazines<\/li>\n<li>3 M-16 magazines<\/li>\n<li>4 INSAS magazines<\/li>\n<li>3 two-inch mortars<\/li>\n<li>2 IEDs<\/li>\n<li>1 remote device<\/li>\n<li>2 electric circuits<\/li>\n<li>1 spirit drum<\/li>\n<li>1 mobile phone with SIM card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The arrested insurgent and recovered items have been handed over to the concerned police authorities for further legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint team of Manipur Police, CRPF and Assam Rifles on Sunday arrested a self-styled Major of the RPF\/PLA, identified as Koijam Ibochouba alias Inao alias Sumo alias Somo alias &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/wanted-rpf-pla-major-arrested-in-imphal-huge-cache-of-arms-unearthed-in-kakching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[652,224,874,118,875],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inn","category-state","tag-arms-and-ammunition","tag-assam-rifles","tag-crpf","tag-manipur-police","tag-rpf-pla","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}