{"id":273557,"date":"2025-11-10T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=273557"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:31:07","slug":"student-found-dead-inside-school-washroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/student-found-dead-inside-school-washroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Student found dead inside school washroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 9 Nov:<\/strong> A 19-year-old boy was found dead at St Xavier&#8217;s International School in Aalo in West Siang district on Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has been identified as Tato Podo, a student of Class 11 and a resident of Gapur village in Monigong in Shi-Yomi district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aalo Police Station Officer-in-Charge Yomken Riram said the body was discovered by two students who noticed the washroom door bolted from inside in the hostel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After forcing it open, they found Podo lying unconscious on the floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following this, the students informed the school authorities, who subsequently informed the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On receiving information, a police team led by Sub-inspector A Pangge visited the scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The area was videographed, photographed, and secured for investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body was then shifted to the Aalo general hospital, where the emergency medical officer declared Podo brought dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;During preliminary inquiry and after reviewing CCTV camera footage, no foul play has been suspected in the case,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following a written application by family members of the deceased for withdrawal of the case, police said the body was released without postmortem examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family members informed the police that after verifying the CCTV camera footage, they were convinced that the death was self-inflicted, and sought to conduct the last rites according to customary village traditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last rites will be conducted at Podo&#8217;s native village Gapur in Shi-Yomi district on Monday. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 9 Nov: A 19-year-old boy was found dead at St Xavier&#8217;s International School in Aalo in West Siang district on Sunday, police said. He has been identified as Tato Podo, a student of Class 11 and a resident of Gapur village in Monigong in Shi-Yomi district. Aalo Police Station Officer-in-Charge Yomken Riram said the [&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-273557","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\/273557","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=273557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}