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[ Bengia Ajum ]<\/strong><\/p>\n LONGDING, 11 Oct:<\/strong> The Longding police have arrested a police constable, identified as Langlem Wanphan, in connection with the killing of businessman Atar Singh Sharma, who was shot dead by NSCN (K-YA) militants on Monday evening.<\/p>\n Police sources informed that Constable Wanphan was arrested after it came to light that the militants had used his car to ferry them around at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n “He has told us that his car was hijacked by the militants from the petrol pump area when he was on his way to drop off his sister-in-law. However, we are investigating the matter and are trying to ascertain the facts,” said DSP B Tangjang.<\/p>\n The police have also arrested one Awang Wangsu, the younger brother of Wanglem Wangsu, a self-styled sergeant major of the NSCN (K-YA), who is the main accused in the case.<\/p>\n “Awang was instructed by his elder brother to conduct advance recce. It was he who told his brother about the presence of Sharma in the shop,” the DSP added.<\/p>\n The police also said that it is difficult at this juncture to pinpoint the motive behind the killing of the businessman.<\/p>\n “Only when the shooter and main accused are arrested will we have a clear picture. We are making an effort to carry out a proper investigation, so that truth prevails,” said a senior police officer.<\/p>\n Businessman Atar Singh Sharma, who was doing business in Longding for the past 40 years, was in his shop when a few rounds were shot at him by operatives of the militant outfit. He was immediately taken to the community health centre, where he was declared dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Bengia Ajum ] LONGDING, 11 Oct: The Longding police have arrested a police constable, identified as Langlem Wanphan, in connection with the killing of businessman Atar Singh Sharma, who was shot dead by NSCN (K-YA) militants on Monday evening. Police sources informed that Constable Wanphan was arrested after it came to light that the […]<\/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-202553","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\/202553","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=202553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}