Arunachal Pradesh IAS officer accused in alleged suicide of 19-year-old boy arrested

The Arunachal Pradesh Police on Monday arrested an Indian Administrative Service officer in the town of Naharlagun in connection with the alleged suicide of a 19-year-old boy on October 23, The Hindu reported.

Naharlagun Superintendent of Police Nyelam Nega told the newspaper that Talo Potom, posted as a secretary in the Public Works Department in Delhi, was arrested after he surrendered at the Nirjuli police station at about 7.30 am.

He was then produced before a judicial magistrate and remanded to 14 days in judicial custody.

Naharlagun, along with Itanagar, form the Itanagar Capital Complex.

The 19-year-old boy, Gomchu Yekar, had been found dead in Papum Pare district’s Lekhi village on October 23, The Hindu reported. After his death, a first information report was filed based on his father’s complaint.

As per the FIR, several notes had been recovered from the room where Yekar died, in which he accused Potom and Likwang Lowang, an executive engineer in the state Rural Works Department, of sexually exploiting and harassing him over an extended period, the newspaper reported.

In his notes, Yekar claimed that continuous humiliation, coercion and threats drove him to death. His family also claimed that the 19-year-old had written about how he had contracted HIV, The Indian Express reported.

Hours after his name was linked to Yekar’s death, Lowang died by suspected...

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