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Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n NIRJULI, 26 Oct:<\/strong> Members of the Upper Subansiri Law Students’ Union and the family of late Gomchu Yekar, who died by suicide, staged a protest at the SP office here on Sunday.<\/p>\n The union demanded the arrest of former ICR deputy commissioner Talo Potom, who was named in the suicide notes of the 19-year-old Yekar, and called for a media briefing by the police to inform the public about the current status of the investigation.<\/p>\n The union said that an additional FIR will be submitted under sections of the POCSO Act, which hadn’t been incorporated in the original FIR.<\/p>\n The union said that “the case is clear violation of Articles 14 and 15 of the Indian Constitution, which reflects on the right to life and personal liberty.”<\/p>\n It said that the special investigation team (SIT) probing the incident should be transparent and hold no bias.<\/p>\n “The SIT should reflect on the current stages of the case and be transparent in the media,” the union said.<\/p>\n It also urged the SIT and the Home Department to “counter the anticipatory bail that is expected to be filed in the coming days.”<\/p>\n The union also urged social media users to avoid trolling and be good citizens, and urged the public to not give the case a communal colour.<\/p>\n On Friday, a special team was constituted by Deputy Inspector General of Police Tumme Amo to investigate the case, with Naharlagun SDPO Kengo Dirchi as the team leader.<\/p>\n A case has U\/S 108\/271\/272\/3(5) of the BNS has been registered at the Nirjuli police station, and a lookout notice for Potom was issued by the Nirjuli police on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Reporter NIRJULI, 26 Oct: Members of the Upper Subansiri Law Students’ Union and the family of late Gomchu Yekar, who died by suicide, staged a protest at the SP office here on Sunday. The union demanded the arrest of former ICR deputy commissioner Talo Potom, who was named in the suicide notes of the […]<\/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-272807","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\/272807","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=272807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}