{"id":67270,"date":"2019-05-18T02:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=67270"},"modified":"2019-05-18T02:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:48:35","slug":"woman-shot-dead-and-burnt-apwws-seeks-investigation-by-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/woman-shot-dead-and-burnt-apwws-seeks-investigation-by-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot dead and burnt, APWWS seeks investigation by SIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 17:<\/strong> The unidentified body of a young woman, aged around 18-19 years, who had been shot and burnt, was found in Hawa Camp (Kimin) area in Papum Pare district on Thursday noon, the police informed.<br \/>\nThe body was reportedly spotted by a local resident, 200 metres from the main road towards Sele village.<br \/>\nPapum Pare SP Pranav Tayal informed\u00a0The Arunachal Times\u00a0that the body was found with a .22 bullet injury in the head, and that 90 percent of her body had been burnt after it had been doused with kerosene.<br \/>\nThe SP said a local resident informed the police about the body having been found, and that the deceased was wearing salwar kameez and sandals.<br \/>\nA police team rushed to the spot, and took the body to the Kimin CHC for postmortem, following which the body was sent to RK Mission Hospital\u2019s (RKMH) mortuary for identification.<br \/>\nTayal said prima facie evidence suggested a planned murder, and that a case under Section 302 IPC has been registered at the Kimin police station.<br \/>\n\u201cThe office-in-charge of the Kimin police station himself is investigating the case, and he has been directed to keep in touch with all the officers in charge of Assam\u2019s<br \/>\nboundary police stations for any missing person complaints,\u201d the SP said.<br \/>\nThe body is currently in the RKMH morgue, and the police have appealed to the people to help in identifying it.<br \/>\n\u201cSo far, no claimant has turned up to claim the body,\u201d Tayal said.<br \/>\nKimin SDO Likha Tejji has also asked the people to come forward with information.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Arunachal Pradesh Women\u2019s Welfare Society (APWWS) has sought inquiry by a special investigation team (SIT) into the case.<br \/>\nCondemning the heinous crime, it urged the Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women (APSCW) to direct the authority concerned to constitute an SIT to unearth the details of the incident.<br \/>\nIn a representation to the APSCW chairperson, the APWWS demanded that the authority concerned act at the earliest to arrest the culprit(s) behind the gruesome murder.<br \/>\n\u201cSuch brutality meted out to the girl is highly condemnable and a very much disturbing trend,\u201d the APWWS said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 17: The unidentified body of a young woman, aged around 18-19 years, who had been shot and burnt, was found in Hawa Camp (Kimin) area in Papum Pare district on Thursday noon, the police informed. The body was reportedly spotted by a local resident, 200 metres from the main road towards [&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-67270","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\/67270","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=67270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}