Three people were arrested in Manipur for their allegedinvolvement in transporting a bomb from the Indo-Myanmar border town of Morehto Imphal on Monday afternoon, police said.
Based on specific intelligence input concerning movementof UG cadres along the Imphal-Moreh highway, Imphal West district commandoswhile conducting frisking of suspected vehicles at around 1.30 pm, spotted asuspicious car and stopped it at Singjamei parking area, Superintendent of PoliceImphal West K Meghachandra told media.
The occupants of the vehicle, Samukcham Mobile andHuidrom Ningol Lairenlakpam Ongbi Ibemcha, were found to be in possession ofeight 1.5 Volt batteries which are basically used for detonating ImprovisedExplosive Device (IED).
The items were found concealed in a bag and accordinglythe two were detained for further questioning.
Preliminary questioning revealed that the recovered items were given to them by one Robertson, a cadre of the banned Revolutionary People's Front when the duo visited the Myanmarese town of Tammu on Monday morning and was instructed to deliver it to another individual at Telipati locality in the capital town.
Accordingly, another individual Lourembam Bhumeshwar was arrested and based on his disclosure, police managed to find an IED fashioned out of a claymore, a remote control, two 9 volt batteries, a detonator, one transistor, 9mm ammunition and a mobile phone from the storeroom of a fuel station, the SP (IW) said.
Debriefing the arrested individual, law enforcers learned that the seized bomb was supposed to be planted at Telipati area where security personnel are often deployed.