{"id":269511,"date":"2025-08-25T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=269511"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:11:17","slug":"dokum-colony-murder-case-solved-1-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/dokum-colony-murder-case-solved-1-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Dokum Colony murder case solved, 1 arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, 24 Aug:<\/strong> The Naharlagun police have cracked the case involving the murder of a teenager in Dokum Colony here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, the body of 16-year-old Nitul Nath, a Class 9 student of Global Academy and son of Balaram Nath, cook to the Itanagar SP, was found inside his room in Dokum Colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four sharp injuries were visible on the deceased&#8217;s face, suspected to have been inflicted with a sharp weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the discovery, forensic experts were called to the spot and a special investigation team (SIT) was constituted under the supervision of Naharlagun SP Dr Nyelam Nega. The team comprised SDPO Rishi Longdo, Inspector K Dev, Inspector Gejum Basar, SI Sunny Hodong, SI Gyati Lento, Head Constable C Kanto Samyor, and Constable Sanju Rai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the investigation, the police detained 22-year-old Norbu Dawa Sona, a master&#8217;s student at Rajiv Gandhi University and a resident of Dokum Colony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During interrogation, Sona confessed to killing Nitul on the night of 21 August while under the influence of intoxicants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He admitted to fleeing the scene after the crime and disposing of the weapon, the Naharlagun police informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the police, the accused and the victim shared a close friendship. However, a quarrel broke out after Sona found a used pouch of ganja in Nitul&#8217;s possession. The argument escalated into a violent clash, leading to the brutal attack that led to the teenager&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused has been arrested, and a case U\/S 103(1) BNS has been registered at the Naharlagun police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, 24 Aug: The Naharlagun police have cracked the case involving the murder of a teenager in Dokum Colony here. On Friday, the body of 16-year-old Nitul Nath, a Class 9 student of Global Academy and son of Balaram Nath, cook to the Itanagar SP, was found inside his room in Dokum Colony. Four sharp [&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-269511","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\/269511","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=269511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}