{"id":324823,"date":"2020-07-19T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324823"},"modified":"2020-07-19T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T19:02:06","slug":"manipur-senior-ips-officer-shoots-self-to-be-airlifted-to-delhi-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/manipur-senior-ips-officer-shoots-self-to-be-airlifted-to-delhi-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur Senior IPS Officer shoots self; to be airlifted to Delhi today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324824 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/mani.jpg 740w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/mani-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/mani-696x591.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/mani-495x420.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/>A senior Indian Police Service officer in Manipur allegedly shot himself with his service gun in his official quarter at 2nd Manipur Rifles Complex in Imphal on Saturday. He was admitted to Raj Medicity, a private hospital in Imphal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Arvind Kumar, the officer, currently holds the post of Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Manipur CM N. Biren Singh visited the IPS officer on Sunday at Raj Medicity and enquired about his health condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cA team of highly skilled doctors at Raj Medicity briefed me on the condition of Shri Arvind Kumar, IPS, ADGP (L&amp;O), Manipur Police who was critically injured in an unfortunate incident yesterday. He will be taken to AIIMS, Delhi by an Air Ambulance today,\u201d said Mr. Biren, in a Twitter post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The chief minister added that the injured officer is now stable and out of danger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0\u201cDuring my visit, I have interacted with Shri Arvind Kumar, IPS, ADGP (L&amp;O), Manipur Police, who was injured in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Currently, his condition is stable and out of danger. May good health envelop him; I wish him a speedy recovery,\u201d added Mr. Biren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, sixty-three CRPF personnel and three army personnel deployed in Manipur tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, taking the state\u2019s coronavirus tally to 1,891 including 709 active cases, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Dr. Khoirom Shashikumar Mangang, the spokesperson of the State Health Department, said the\u00a0 CRPF personnel found to be infected are stationed at a training center in Kangpokpi district while the three army men are from Leimakhong Garrison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Indian Police Service officer in Manipur allegedly shot himself with his service gun in his official quarter at 2nd Manipur Rifles Complex in Imphal on Saturday. He was admitted to Raj Medicity, a private hospital in Imphal. Arvind Kumar, the officer, currently holds the post of Additional Director General of Police (Law and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2930,2030,2014],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324825,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324823\/revisions\/324825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}