{"id":14317,"date":"2017-12-29T01:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=14317"},"modified":"2017-12-29T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:42:58","slug":"polling-officials-allegedly-attacked-teachers-demand-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/polling-officials-allegedly-attacked-teachers-demand-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling officials allegedly attacked; teachers demand action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>AALO, Dec 28:<\/strong> A group of around 60 people allegedly assaulted Presiding Officer Karik Lollen and his polling team when they were returning from Siberite to Gensi during the recently concluded by-election to the Likabali assembly constituency.<br \/>\nCondemning the mob attack, the Arunachal Teachers&#8217; Association&#8217;s (ATA)<br \/>\nWest Siang district unit in a representation of the district election officer said the mob also damaged polling materials and EVMs, besides physically assaulting police officials.<br \/>\nIt demanded that the attackers be booked under appropriate sections of the law and given exemplary punishment.<br \/>\nThe ITBP personnel on duty had to fire five rounds in the air to disperse the mob, it said.<br \/>\nHowever, the polling team managed to escape with the help of the sector magistrate, the association added. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, Dec 28: A group of around 60 people allegedly assaulted Presiding Officer Karik Lollen and his polling team when they were returning from Siberite to Gensi during the recently concluded by-election to the Likabali assembly constituency. Condemning the mob attack, the Arunachal Teachers&#8217; Association&#8217;s (ATA) West Siang district unit in a representation of 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-14317","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\/14317","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=14317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}