{"id":137924,"date":"2020-09-25T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137924"},"modified":"2020-09-25T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:57:17","slug":"highway-robbers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/highway-robbers-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway robbers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 24:<\/strong> The capital police have arrested two persons, identified as Yura Tate (19) and Dindo Naru (22), in connection with the recent highway robbery case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A police team comprising Inspector M Geyi, SI G Arangham, Head Constable Likha Tak and Constables Taba Nikia, Bomkia Yangfo and T Ramu reportedly caught the two alleged accused red-handed in Lekhi at around 6:30 pm on Thursday during patrolling, when the accused were attempting to rob one Mahindra Bolero pickup truck after overtaking the truck on an R15 bike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused disclosed during preliminary interrogation that they committed robberies in Nirjuli area, Papu Nallah in Naharlagun, Yupia\/Gumto in Doimukh, and Chimpu in Itanagar, the police stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police said that the accused will be produced before the court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the last one month, there were reports of highway robbery being carried out by two unknown persons on a black-and-red R15 bike without a number plate, targeting vehicles being driven by non-tribals returning after delivering goods in the Itanagar capital region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police informed that the duo&#8217;s modus operandi was to follow the target vehicle returning from Itanagar and Naharlagun in the evening on a bike or on a grey scooter without a number plate. They would snatch whatever cash was found in the target vehicle and flee from the scene, using masks and helmets to prevent being identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Arunachal Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industries had raised the issue with the director general of police recently, and had demanded immediate arrest of the accused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two cases have been registered at the Nirjuli police station, based on FIRs lodged by one Gobind Gupta and one Saiful Islam on different dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Sep 24: The capital police have arrested two persons, identified as Yura Tate (19) and Dindo Naru (22), in connection with the recent highway robbery case. A police team comprising Inspector M Geyi, SI G Arangham, Head Constable Likha Tak and Constables Taba Nikia, Bomkia Yangfo and T Ramu reportedly caught the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}