{"id":139926,"date":"2020-10-18T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T20:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=139926"},"modified":"2020-10-18T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T20:08:14","slug":"ss-nscn-k-y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/18\/ss-nscn-k-y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op\/","title":{"rendered":"SS NSCN (K-Y) sgt major killed in joint op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-NSCN-K-Y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-139939 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-NSCN-K-Y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-NSCN-K-Y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op.jpg 520w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-NSCN-K-Y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-NSCN-K-Y-sgt-major-killed-in-joint-op-401x420.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 17:<\/strong> A self-styled (SS) sergeant major of the NSCN (K-Y), identified as Ganjom Wangsa (30), of Longkai village in Longding district, was killed in a joint operation carried out by the Longding police and Khonsa (Tirap)-based 6th Assam Rifles (AR) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Longding DSP B Tangjang, the police and the AR launched the operation in an area between Wakka and Chongkho village on receipt of inputs from sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The incident occurred between 4 and 5 am, when they spotted four operatives of NSCN (K-Y) in the said area. The operatives were told to surrender. However, they began firing and the security forces and the police retaliated, in which one operative was killed,&#8221; the DSP said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weapons, including a grenade launcher, a pistol along with a magazine, one Chinese hand grenade, three grenade launcher live rounds, one 0.32 mm live round, five 0.32 mm fired cases, and 15 7.62 mm AK-47 fired cases were seized from Wangsa&#8217;s possession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dead body was brought to the Longding CHC and the inquest and postmortem were conducted. The body was later handed over to the relatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ganjom Wangsa was reportedly involved in extorting &#8216;house tax&#8217; and money from traders and businessman of Longding district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the police have registered a case (u\/s 307\/121\/34 IPC r\/w Section 25 (1)\/27 (2) Arms Act\/4 of the Explosive Substances Act), and investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Oct 17: A self-styled (SS) sergeant major of the NSCN (K-Y), identified as Ganjom Wangsa (30), of Longkai village in Longding district, was killed in a joint operation carried out by the Longding police and Khonsa (Tirap)-based 6th Assam Rifles (AR) on Saturday. According to Longding DSP B Tangjang, the police and [&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-139926","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\/139926","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=139926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}