{"id":36017,"date":"2018-07-11T01:37:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=36017"},"modified":"2018-07-11T01:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:07:55","slug":"centuries-old-iron-chain-from-historic-bridge-stolen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/07\/11\/centuries-old-iron-chain-from-historic-bridge-stolen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Centuries old iron chain from historic bridge stolen again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Lham Tsering ]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>TAWANG, Jul 10:<\/strong> In a shocking incident, part of a centuries old iron chain from the historic Chakzham Bridge here has been stolen by miscreants.<br \/>\nThe incident came to light on 8 July. It is suspected that the miscreants took away the centuries-old chain on the night of 7 July, according to the caretaker of the bridge.<br \/>\n&#8220;Approximately 15 metres of it has been snapped and stolen,&#8221; said Leki Tsering, a resident of Mukto village, who had reached the bridge for inspection along with a companion.<br \/>\nAccording to wise men of the region, the iron chain was worth Rs 4 to 5 crore.<br \/>\nThe GBs and former panchayat members of Mukto, Mirba and Gomkyelling have filed a complaint at the Jang police station. They also wrote to the deputy commissioner, informing him of the theft.<br \/>\nThis is not the first time that chains have been stolen from the 15th-16th century bridge. A similar theft case had been reported in 2015, following which compliants were lodged at the Tawang and Jang police stations.<br \/>\nThe bridge over the Tawang Chu river is 25 km from the town, and is highly revered for its religious significance. The bridge was built by Tangton Gyalpo, a disciple of the first Dalai Lama, popularly known as Lama Chag-Zam Wangpo (1385-1464).<br \/>\nThe bridge, which exemplifies finest metallurgy, was built over the Tawang Chu river during the 15th-16th century, and makes a passage through Kitpi and Mukto.<br \/>\nLama Chakzham Wangpo was an architect, philosopher and iron chain bridge builder. He is credited to have built more than 100 iron bridges all over the Himalayan region. (Tawang Vigilance)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Lham Tsering ] TAWANG, Jul 10: In a shocking incident, part of a centuries old iron chain from the historic Chakzham Bridge here has been stolen by miscreants. The incident came to light on 8 July. It is suspected that the miscreants took away the centuries-old chain on the night of 7 July, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36017","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=36017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}