{"id":329456,"date":"2020-12-14T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329456"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:21:19","slug":"chhattisgarh-crpf-deputy-commandant-killed-in-ied-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chhattisgarh-crpf-deputy-commandant-killed-in-ied-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh: CRPF Deputy Commandant killed in IED blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304184\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304184\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1068x534.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Deputy Commandant, who was injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh&#8217;s Sukma district, died on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vikas Singhal, belonging to CoBRAs 208th battalion, died at around 1 am during treatment at a hospital in Raipur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was injured on Sunday in Kistaram forest area, when the improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Maoists exploded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CRPF tweeted, \u201cWe salute the valour &amp; steadfast devotion to duty of Shri Vikas Singhal, Deputy Commandant of #208Bn @CoBRASECTORHQ who made the supreme sacrifice while valiantly fighting the Maoists in Sukma, Chhattisgarh. We stand with the family of our Braveheart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Deputy Commandant, who was injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh&#8217;s Sukma district, died on Monday. Vikas Singhal, belonging to CoBRAs 208th battalion, died at around 1 am during treatment at a hospital in Raipur. He was injured on Sunday in Kistaram forest area, when the improvised explosive device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,2014],"tags":[1706,1176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329456"}],"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=329456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329511,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329456\/revisions\/329511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}