Imphal, February 21 A militant was arrested in the Imphal West district of Manipur, police said on Saturday.
The member of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (PSC) was arrested from Tera Lukram Leirak on Friday, they said.
In another operation in the Imphal East district, arms and ammunition were recovered, they added.
Among the recovered items were a .303 rifle with a magazine, a .22 rifle, a 9 mm submachine gun with a magazine, two hand grenades, an improvised bomb, an MK-1 grenade, and 57 bullets of different calibres, police said.
In a crackdown on drug-related activities, security forces destroyed 30 acres of illicit poppy cultivation in the Senapati and Churachandpur districts.
Illicit poppy cultivation on 10 acres was destroyed in the Kangjang Hill Range in the Senapati district. Twenty acres of poppy plantation was destroyed at Mongken in Churachandpur.