{"id":218705,"date":"2023-06-19T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=218705"},"modified":"2023-06-19T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T19:51:59","slug":"nscn-k-ya-members-arrested-drug-cache-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/nscn-k-ya-members-arrested-drug-cache-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCN (K-YA) members arrested, drug cache seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, 18 Jun:<\/strong> The Khonsa (Tirap) battalion of the Assam Rifles and the Longding police in a joint operation arrested three NSCN (K-YA) operatives and seized a large cache of drug and cash from two villages in Wakka circle of Longding district on 17 and 18 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The operation was launched based on an input regarding the presence of suspected NSCN (K-YA) operatives near Wakka town. The trio was arrested from Wakka and Khanu villages with heroin-based narcotic substance worth approximately Rs 7 lakhs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The operatives were carrying the narcotic substance procured from the border areas via Myanmarese operatives, reportedly in order to raise money for underground groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drug trade is turning out to be a major nuisance in the region. It is speculated that drug trade is part of a larger narco-terror racket that is fuelling the fledgling insurgency in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since extortion activities have plummeted and population support has been waning, the antinational elements are evidently devising new ways to fuel insurgency in the region. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, 18 Jun: The Khonsa (Tirap) battalion of the Assam Rifles and the Longding police in a joint operation arrested three NSCN (K-YA) operatives and seized a large cache of drug and cash from two villages in Wakka circle of Longding district on 17 and 18 June. The operation was launched based on an input [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218705","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=218705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}