{"id":326308,"date":"2020-09-12T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326308"},"modified":"2020-09-12T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:31:53","slug":"china-hands-over-five-indian-youths-who-went-missing-from-arunachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/china-hands-over-five-indian-youths-who-went-missing-from-arunachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"China hands over five Indian youths who went missing from Arunachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326309 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/five-arunachal-youths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/five-arunachal-youths.jpg 580w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/five-arunachal-youths-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/five-arunachal-youths-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/five-arunachal-youths-412x420.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>Five men from Arunachal Pradesh, who went missing earlier this month and were later found to be in Chinese territory, have been handed over to India by the China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The handover took place near Kibithu area in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PRO Defence Tezpur (Assam\/Arunachal Pradesh) confirmed the news in a tweet and said, \u201c5 civilians from #UpperSubansiri who had strayed across #LAC have been handed over by #PLA to #IndianArmy at Kibithu on12 Sep after all formalities. After quarantine of 14 days for #COVID19 they will be handed over to family members.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Kiren Rijiju appreciated Indian Army for the smooth return of five youths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChina&#8217;s PLA has handed over our 5 boys to our side here at Kibitu area. I appreciate Indian Army for the smooth return of our citizens. I thank Indian Army Chief, his office and the local Commanders for constantly following up the matter and regularly updating me on the matter,\u201d the union minister tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five men from Arunachal Pradesh, who went missing earlier this month and were later found to be in Chinese territory, have been handed over to India by the China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Saturday. The handover took place near Kibithu area in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. PRO Defence Tezpur (Assam\/Arunachal Pradesh) confirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2931,36,2030,2014],"tags":[2168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326308"}],"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=326308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326310,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326308\/revisions\/326310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}