{"id":281156,"date":"2026-04-14T00:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=281156"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:07","slug":"assam-man-held-for-duping-people-in-arunachal-over-pharmacy-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/assam-man-held-for-duping-people-in-arunachal-over-pharmacy-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam man held for duping people in Arunachal over pharmacy licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 13 Apr:<\/strong> A 33-year-old man was arrested by the Arunachal Pradesh Police from Assam&#8217;s North Lakhimpur district for allegedly duping people with the promises of pharmacy and business licences, officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused, Debojit Sharma, a resident of Bihpuria, was apprehended on 10 April from Pithaguri in Mazgaon following over a year of surveillance, SP Nyelam Nega said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma had been on the run since 2023 after allegedly cheating several people in Doimukh and Naharlagun by collecting money\u00a0 on the pretext of facilitating pharmacy licences, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was produced before a court in Naharlagun, which remanded him to judicial custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been registered at the Naharlagun police station under Section 318(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which deals with aggravated cheating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police said multiple cases are pending against the accused at different police stations in the Itanagar Capital Region, including Naharlagun and Yupia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP urged the people to remain cautious and verify credentials before engaging in licence-related transactions to avoid falling prey to such fraud. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 13 Apr: A 33-year-old man was arrested by the Arunachal Pradesh Police from Assam&#8217;s North Lakhimpur district for allegedly duping people with the promises of pharmacy and business licences, officials said on Monday. The accused, Debojit Sharma, a resident of Bihpuria, was apprehended on 10 April from Pithaguri in Mazgaon following over a year [&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-281156","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\/281156","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=281156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281171,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281156\/revisions\/281171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}