{"id":183333,"date":"2022-02-04T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=183333"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:27:09","slug":"arrested-drug-peddler-allegedly-impersonated-gpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/arrested-drug-peddler-allegedly-impersonated-gpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested drug peddler allegedly impersonated GPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, 3 Feb:<\/strong> Hangpong Besai, who was recently arrested by a joint team of the Tirap police&#8217;s anti-drug squad and the CRPF for peddling drugs, has been accused of posing as the gram panchayat chairperson (GPC) of New Ngonthong\/New Changyak village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besai was arrested on 31 January in a joint operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During initial investigation on Tuesday, the police team searched the residence of the accused and seized several rubber stamps with &#8216;Shri Hangpong Besai, GPC Ngonthong (New Changyak) village, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh&#8217; engraved on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It later emerged that the accused is in fact a gram panchayat member and not the GPC of Ngonthong (New Changyak) village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">District Development &amp; Panchayat Officer Hakrisho Kri informed this daily on Thursday that the member secretary\/circle officer of the area had reportedly warned the accused against using the GPC stamp on several occasions earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are not sure if the accused misused the stamps in any way after the warning, but I have sought a report from the member secretary\/circle officer of the area and am yet to receive the same. Once I receive the report, further action can be initiated. We will initiate his disqualification from the gram panchayat membership and file a case for impersonation. Since he is currently under trial, these actions can be taken only after his conviction,&#8221; Kri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, 3 Feb: Hangpong Besai, who was recently arrested by a joint team of the Tirap police&#8217;s anti-drug squad and the CRPF for peddling drugs, has been accused of posing as the gram panchayat chairperson (GPC) of New Ngonthong\/New Changyak village. Besai was arrested on 31 January in a joint operation. During initial investigation on [&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-183333","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\/183333","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=183333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}