{"id":59140,"date":"2019-02-04T01:39:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=59140"},"modified":"2019-02-04T01:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:09:56","slug":"two-police-officers-suspended-over-missing-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/two-police-officers-suspended-over-missing-drug-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers suspended over missing drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 3:<\/strong> Two police officers have reportedly been suspended after a massive protest was launched by the Women Against Social Evils (WASE), a Pasighat (East Siang)-based women NGO, following report of seized opium going missing from the police station in Pasighat.<br \/>\nThe two officers, identified as Sub-inspector Ravindra Singh and Assistant Sub-inspector (IBRn) Kitam Jamoh, were allegedly involved in the matter of the contraband substance going missing from the police station.<br \/>\nEast Siang SP Prashant Gautam confirmed the suspension of the officers and said that, as per the WASE&#8217;s demand, he has written to the deputy commissioner for a magisterial inquiry into the incident.<br \/>\nApparently, the suspension came after the WASE launched a protest in front of the Pasighat police station, demanding suspension of SI Singh and ASI Jamoh, instituting of a magisterial inquiry, and retrieval of the missing drug.<br \/>\nWASE volunteers along with SI Ravindra Singh and ASI MI Ansari had seized 25 opium balls from<br \/>\none Kome Tayeng, a resident of Kargu village, on 2 January. The team also reportedly apprehended ASI Jamoh with the drug peddler. Later, Tayeng, along with the seized drug, was escorted in ASI Jamoh&#8217;s personal car.<br \/>\nThe illegal opium balls were received by SI Ravindra Singh, but no seizure list was prepared, the WASE claimed in an FIR it lodged at the police station on 3 January.<br \/>\nThe NGO claimed that SI Singh, who had been assigned as the investigating officer of the case of the seized drugs, could produce only a few seized opium balls while the rest went missing.<br \/>\nWASE president Omem Ering claimed that when the WASE team enquired about the opium going missing from police custody, &#8220;SI Singh shouted at us angrily.<br \/>\n&#8220;After learning about the missing opium, we had lodged a complaint with the SP on 3 January, but no action was initiated till date; so we were compelled to carry out the protest rally, demanding suspension of Singh and Jamoh,&#8221; said Ering.<br \/>\nFormer education minister Bosiram Siram and local MLA Kaling Moyong supported the WASE&#8217;s cause, and urged the police authority take strong action against the officers.<br \/>\nThe SP stated that the matter is under investigation, and that, whatever the outcome of the inquiry, they would act as per the established law and rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Feb 3: Two police officers have reportedly been suspended after a massive protest was launched by the Women Against Social Evils (WASE), a Pasighat (East Siang)-based women NGO, following report of seized opium going missing from the police station in Pasighat. The two officers, identified as Sub-inspector Ravindra Singh and Assistant Sub-inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59140","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\/59140","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=59140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}