{"id":269681,"date":"2025-08-28T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=269681"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:53:03","slug":"businessman-arrested-for-cheating-arunachal-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/businessman-arrested-for-cheating-arunachal-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman arrested for cheating Arunachal contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 27 Aug:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh police arrested a Guwahati-based businessman on the charge of cheating contractors of over Rs. 52 lakh in connection with the construction of BSNL&#8217;s mobile phone towers in the state, an officer said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 41-year-old accused who had been absconding for nearly a year was picked up from Guwahati in a joint operation with Assam police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">West Siang superintendent of police Kardak Riba said the businessman had secured sub-contracts through a company for building BSNL towers in Aalo and other parts of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local contractors made a police complaint stating that despite completion of the civil works for seven towers, the businessman failed to release their dues after receiving full payment from the principal company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP, who supervised the operation, said the accused switched off his mobile phone and evaded contact with the complainants and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This arrest on 25 August is a significant success for police and exposes a wider network of fraudulent dealings in government contracts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP said the investigation has revealed a pattern of fraud involving his company and its associates, with similar complaints emerging from Papum Pare, Daporijo (Upper Subansiri) and other districts of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case has been registered under various sections of cheating and criminal conspiracy, and further investigation is underway to identify others involved in the racket, he added. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 27 Aug: Arunachal Pradesh police arrested a Guwahati-based businessman on the charge of cheating contractors of over Rs. 52 lakh in connection with the construction of BSNL&#8217;s mobile phone towers in the state, an officer said on Wednesday. The 41-year-old accused who had been absconding for nearly a year was picked up from Guwahati [&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-269681","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\/269681","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=269681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}