{"id":455,"date":"2021-05-22T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-05-28T00:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:49:32","slug":"ulfa-i-releases-abducted-ongc-employee-1-month-after-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2021\/05\/22\/ulfa-i-releases-abducted-ongc-employee-1-month-after-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"ULFA-I releases abducted ONGC employee  1 month after abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ritul Saikia, an employee of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), who was abducted by banned United Liberation Front of Asom Independent (ULFA-I) was released from Assam\u2019s Sivasagar district last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abducted ONGC employee was released by ULFA-I  at around 7.00am, Saturday morning in Longwa village, Mon district near Nagaland-Myanmar border. Security forces have taken him into their custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn Indian army team escorted the ONGC employee on his way to Mon, and security forces will jointly interrogate him,\u201d said a top Indian Army personnel based in Dimapur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier on May 20, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma  formally appealed ULFA and its C-in-C Paresh Baruah to release the abducted ONGC employee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After  Saikia\u2019s release, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted: \u201cHeartily welcome release of Ritul Saikia, ONGC employee abducted by ULFA, early today! Grateful to Honble UHM @AmitShah for constant guidance. Hope an era of peace &amp; development is firmly established in state with cooperation of one and all. Pray to Almighty for His Blessings.\u201d<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritul Saikia, an employee of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), who was abducted by banned United Liberation Front of Asom Independent (ULFA-I) was released from Assam\u2019s Sivasagar district last month. The abducted ONGC employee was released by ULFA-I at around 7.00am, Saturday morning in Longwa village, Mon district near Nagaland-Myanmar border. Security forces have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}