{"id":233797,"date":"2024-02-02T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=233797"},"modified":"2024-02-02T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:16:08","slug":"road-blockade-in-namsai-over-labourers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/road-blockade-in-namsai-over-labourers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Road blockade in Namsai over labourer&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 1 Feb:<\/strong> Hundreds of people on Thursday staged a road blockade in Dirak Gate area in Namsai district in protest against the death of a labourer allegedly due to severe beating, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Namsai SP Sange Thinley told PTI that the labourer, identified as 60-year-old Sab Taye, was severely beaten up by three other workers on Monday. All of them worked together at a construction site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taye, a resident of New Silatoo village in the district, later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case was registered and the three accused labourers have been arrested, the SP said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During interrogation, the accused claimed that they beat up Taye after he was caught stealing a drilling machine and some other goods from the site, Thinley said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday morning, hundreds of people from all walks of life staged a dharna and resorted to road blockade in protest against the killing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They demanded the arrest of a contractor who had engaged the labourers in construction work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in the day, the road blockade was lifted, Thingley said, adding that the situation is tense but under control. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 1 Feb: Hundreds of people on Thursday staged a road blockade in Dirak Gate area in Namsai district in protest against the death of a labourer allegedly due to severe beating, police said. Namsai SP Sange Thinley told PTI that the labourer, identified as 60-year-old Sab Taye, was severely beaten up by three other [&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-233797","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\/233797","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=233797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}