{"id":175477,"date":"2021-10-30T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=175477"},"modified":"2021-10-30T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:24:16","slug":"nscn-im-operative-arrested-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/nscn-im-operative-arrested-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCN (IM) operative arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 29 Oct:<\/strong> An operative of the NSCN (IM), who was allegedly involved in planning an attack on security forces in Tirap district last year, was arrested, defence sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Assam Rifles jawans and police personnel on Wednesday apprehended Dowang Wangsa, the self-styled sergeant of the outfit, from the district, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The joint team recovered a pistol and ammunition from his possession, the sources said, adding that Wangsa is a close associate of self-styled colonel Apem Tangkhul, the operational commander of the NSCN (IM) in Tirap district, and self-styled major Victor Tangkhul of the outfit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During interrogation, the insurgent admitted that he was involved in planning an ambush on security forces in Sanliam village of the district on 21 October last year, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was handed over to the Khonsa police station for further investigation, the sources added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 29 Oct: An operative of the NSCN (IM), who was allegedly involved in planning an attack on security forces in Tirap district last year, was arrested, defence sources said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Assam Rifles jawans and police personnel on Wednesday apprehended Dowang Wangsa, the self-styled sergeant of [&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-175477","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\/175477","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=175477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}