Security forces in Manipur arrested seven individuals, including four cadres of the banned United National Liberation Front (Pambei), on December 18, 2025, for hijacking a truck loaded with iced fish on the Maharabi-Pheidinga Road in Imphal West district. The militants—Borish Sagolsem (25), Herojit Sharma (32), Asem Amar Meitei (20), and Md Salman Khan (35)—despite their group’s 2023 peace pact with the Centre, engaged in this extortion-linked crime, prompting swift police action that recovered the truck, its cargo, and two tipper vehicles used to shift the fish, along with three other suspects including drivers. In a separate operation the same day, authorities seized and defused 16 ANFO paste-type IEDs in Kangvai area’s Lungdeiphai Leinom village junction, Churachandpur district, near sites of recent firing, reinforcing India’s determined efforts to curb militancy and ensure stability in the Northeast.