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

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