{"id":232561,"date":"2024-01-17T00:08:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=232561"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:38:32","slug":"2-held-for-killing-of-moreh-sdpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/2-held-for-killing-of-moreh-sdpo\/","title":{"rendered":"2 held for killing of Moreh SDPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, 16 Jan:<\/strong> Two persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in the killing of a sub-divisional police officer at Moreh in Manipur&#8217;s Tengnoupal district, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were apprehended on Monday evening by special commando teams at the border town, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;During patrolling near Moreh College, security personnel observed two suspected individuals who fired at the vehicles of security personnel and ran into a cluster of houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The security forces immediately retaliated and cordoned off the houses near Moreh College,&#8221; the police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the operation, the two persons were &#8220;overpowered and detained for verification,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were arrested after a firearm and ammunition were seized from their possession, it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of women, however, staged a demonstration in front of the Moreh police station, demanding the release of the two persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the statement, the arrested persons are &#8220;among the main suspects&#8221; in the killing of Moreh SDPO Chingtham Anand in October last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anand was shot dead when a police team led by him was inspecting the newly constructed helipad at the eastern ground in the border town dominated by people belonging to the Kuki-Zo community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident came weeks after several civil society organisations, particularly those based in Moreh, demanded the removal of state forces from the border town. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, 16 Jan: Two persons were arrested for allegedly being involved in the killing of a sub-divisional police officer at Moreh in Manipur&#8217;s Tengnoupal district, police said on Tuesday. They were apprehended on Monday evening by special commando teams at the border town, a police statement said. &#8220;During patrolling near Moreh College, security personnel observed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232561","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=232561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}