{"id":63297,"date":"2019-03-31T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=63297"},"modified":"2019-03-31T01:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:10:38","slug":"alleged-accused-deny-vandalism-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/31\/alleged-accused-deny-vandalism-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged accused deny vandalism charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 30:<\/strong> Three men who have been accused of allegedly being involved in the recent incident of vandalism at former MLA Likha Saaya&#8217;s residence in Nirjuli claimed on Saturday that the allegation against them was false and baseless.<br \/>\nAddressing the media in a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club, Rending Tayo Biki said the charge levelled against him by Saaya&#8217;s brother, Likha Tath, was false as he (Biki) had reached Saaya&#8217;s residence only after the incident had occurred.<br \/>\nClaiming innocence, Biki said he was being framed by Saaya&#8217;s family.<br \/>\n&#8220;On receiving a message from Saaya&#8217;s brother, calling his supporters and well-wishers to Saaya&#8217;s residence on 24 March, I also went there to attend the meeting. When I reached his residence, the house had already been ransacked and vandalized; so there is no question of my playing the role of the ringleader in the vandalism,&#8221; Biki said.<br \/>\nBiki went on to claim that although he did enter Saaya&#8217;s bedroom, his intention was to console him, not to attempt to harm him or murder him, as claimed in the FIR.<br \/>\n&#8220;I went inside his bedroom to console him. I did not get the opportunity to meet him, and I did not possess any lethal weapon as claimed in the FIR,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe other alleged accused, Khoda Tabang and Jamlo Issac, who were arrested by the police, also claimed to be innocent and denied the charges made in the FIR.<br \/>\n&#8220;I had no role in vandalizing Likha Saaya&#8217;s residence. I was falsely charged,&#8221; said Tabang.<br \/>\n&#8220;I had also gone to Saaya&#8217;s residence to attend the meeting after receiving his message. However, later, the agitated people started damaging chairs when Saaya decided not to contest,&#8221; said Issac, claiming that he was not involved in the ransacking and the arson.<br \/>\nFormer Yachuli MLA Saaya&#8217;s residence was vandalized by angry supporters on the evening of 24 March, reportedly after Saaya decided not to contest the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Mar 30: Three men who have been accused of allegedly being involved in the recent incident of vandalism at former MLA Likha Saaya&#8217;s residence in Nirjuli claimed on Saturday that the allegation against them was false and baseless. Addressing the media in a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club, Rending Tayo [&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-63297","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\/63297","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=63297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}