{"id":213779,"date":"2023-03-28T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213779"},"modified":"2023-03-28T01:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:18:35","slug":"search-underway-for-escaped-nscn-operatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/search-underway-for-escaped-nscn-operatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for escaped NSCN operatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Bengia Ajum ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 27 Mar:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP), in coordination with the Assam Rifles, are continuing the search for the two NSCN operatives &#8211; Roksen Homcha and Titpu Kitnya &#8211; who escaped from the central jail in Tirap HQ Khonsa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Till the time of filing this report, the duo could not be traced by the security personnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;No new update. Search operation is underway,&#8221; informed APP spokesperson Rohit Rajbir Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, at around 5 pm, when IRBn constable Wangnyam Bosai was on duty, the duo in a coordinated attack snatched the AK-47 rifle from the constable and fired upon him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bosai, who was shot in the stomach, passed away while he was being taken to Dibrugarh in Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roksen Homcha, who is a native of Borduria village, was serving his sentence for murder. He is believed to be a close associate of one Loliam Latey Lowang of the same village, who reportedly heads the NSCN-K (Niki-Sumi) faction in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interestingly, Loliam Latey Lowang also broke out of the Khonsa jail in a daring jailbreak on 7 August, 2013. Seven undertrial prisoners (UTP) escaped on that day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other operative, identified as self-styled sergeant major Titpu Kitniya, from Kharsang in Changlang district, was an undertrial prisoner. He is alleged to be an operative of the NSCN (IM).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both of the inmates had been in the jail for the last six months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is still not clear how the duo managed to snatch the AK-47 rifle from the constable and flee from the jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The situation leading to the fleeing of the duo is not clear. The police are not sharing anything at this juncture. However, it is a known fact that most of the inmates used to be quite friendly with the guards posted there,&#8221; said an official of Tirap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, in another major jail outbreak on 19 July, 2013, 18 undertrial prisoners managed to flee from the Chowkham police outpost lockup in the wee hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Bengia Ajum ] ITANAGAR, 27 Mar: The Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP), in coordination with the Assam Rifles, are continuing the search for the two NSCN operatives &#8211; Roksen Homcha and Titpu Kitnya &#8211; who escaped from the central jail in Tirap HQ Khonsa on Sunday. Till the time of filing this report, the duo [&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-213779","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\/213779","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=213779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}