{"id":15156,"date":"2018-01-06T00:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:22:01","slug":"public-surround-police-outpost-demanding-action-over-rape-murder-of-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/public-surround-police-outpost-demanding-action-over-rape-murder-of-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Public surround police outpost, demanding action over rape, murder of minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAMSAI, Jan 5:<\/strong> The public in Namsai surrounded the Chongkham police outpost on Friday, demanding immediate action against the alleged suspect who has been arrested for the murder and rape of a 13-year-old school girl in Chongkham.<br \/>\nMaking attempts to calm down the crowd, Sub-Inspector D Singpho told them that the police are working out all the modalities to ascertain the suspect&#8217;s involvement, and requested the public to come up with clues, if any, to speed up the investigation.<br \/>\nSingpho, who is also the investigating officer of the case, said that their outburst was understandable, and that it would serve as a reminder to everyone before committing such a heinous crime. He assured that he would make sure that the culprit would not be let off, and that justice would be served.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the mother of the victim has received the Rs 4 lakh ex-gratia (as had been assured by the state government) from local MLA Zingnu Namchoom.<br \/>\nStudent bodies, NGOs and the public here have expressed appreciation for Namchoom&#8217;s initiative in persuading the government for the gesture, and also thanked the administration and Chief Minister Pema Khandu for their active involvement in the case.<br \/>\nEarlier, on 23 November, 2017, the young schoolgirl was brutally attacked and murdered in the family fields.<br \/>\nThe police on suspicion rounded up the victim&#8217;s uncle and his driver in the days following the incident. The driver then gave a statement that his employer (the uncle) had attacked the child with a machete (dao) on her shoulder.<br \/>\nWhen she fought back, he slit her throat and raped her, the driver reportedly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAMSAI, Jan 5: The public in Namsai surrounded the Chongkham police outpost on Friday, demanding immediate action against the alleged suspect who has been arrested for the murder and rape of a 13-year-old school girl in Chongkham. Making attempts to calm down the crowd, Sub-Inspector D Singpho told them that the police are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156","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=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}