{"id":331753,"date":"2021-04-25T03:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331753"},"modified":"2021-04-25T03:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:25:24","slug":"former-ssb-chief-arun-chaudhary-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-ssb-chief-arun-chaudhary-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SSB chief Arun Chaudhary passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331754\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Arun-Chaudhary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/Arun-Chaudhary.jpg 390w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/Arun-Chaudhary-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/04\/Arun-Chaudhary-337x420.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Sashastra Seema Bal chief Arun Chaudhary has succumbed to coronavirus, officials said on Sunday. He was 66.<br \/>\nChaudhary served for nearly two decades in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) where he headed the Jammu and Kashmir desk.<br \/>\nThe SSB condoled his death on social media, saying it was &#8220;saddened by the untimely demise of Chaudhary&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;His contribution to the nation and SSB cannot be forgotten,&#8221; it tweeted. &#8220;SSB stands by his family in this period of grief and sorrow and prays to the almighty that the departed soul may rest in peace.&#8221;<br \/>\nChaudhary was active on Twitter and he used to comment on subjects of security, strategy, and law and order. His last activity on the microblogging platform was a retweet on April 17 of a news story titled, &#8216;Coronavirus situation worsens in India&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sashastra Seema Bal chief Arun Chaudhary has succumbed to coronavirus, officials said on Sunday. He was 66. Chaudhary served for nearly two decades in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) where he headed the Jammu and Kashmir desk. The SSB condoled his death on social media, saying it was &#8220;saddened by the untimely demise of Chaudhary&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14141,3666,14142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331753"}],"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=331753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331755,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331753\/revisions\/331755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}