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GUWAHATI, 2 May:<\/strong> A top office-bearer of a regional organisation was arrested in Assam’s Sivasagar district on Tuesday on an allegation of extortion, a top police officer said.<\/p>\n Director General of Police GP Singh said that Shrinkhal Chaliha has been apprehended and action as per law initiated against him.<\/p>\n Chaliha is a top office-bearer of the Veer Lachit Sena, an organisation working purportedly to safeguard the interests of the indigenous people of the state.<\/p>\n “Reference extortion demand at Sivasagar in the name of donation for socio-cultural event – named accused person, one Shrinkhal Chaliha has been arrested and action is being taken per law,” Singh wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n “@mygovassam directions regarding Forceful collection for socio-cultural events would be strictly implemented by @assampolice,” he added.<\/p>\n The accused and some other members of his group had reportedly demanded monetary donation from a businessman in Sivasagar district last week.<\/p>\n When the person refused them, claiming that he had already paid his share through a traders’ association, Chaliha had verbally abused him and spit on his face.<\/p>\n The incident was captured on CCTV camera of the shop and had been circulating on social media since.<\/p>\n The aggrieved businessman had filed a complaint with the police, on the basis of which Chaliha has been arrested.<\/p>\n Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had instructed the police earlier to take strict action against any individual or organisation demanding donation in the name of socio-cultural events. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUWAHATI, 2 May: A top office-bearer of a regional organisation was arrested in Assam’s Sivasagar district on Tuesday on an allegation of extortion, a top police officer said. Director General of Police GP Singh said that Shrinkhal Chaliha has been apprehended and action as per law initiated against him. Chaliha is a top office-bearer of […]<\/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-215610","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\/215610","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=215610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}