{"id":3614,"date":"2026-08-03T03:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:51:19","slug":"man-found-dead-after-alleged-firing-inside-raimona-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=3614","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Dead After Alleged Firing Inside Raimona National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"451\">A 29-year-old man was found dead inside Raimona National Park in Assam&#8217;s Kokrajhar district on Tuesday, with his family alleging that he was shot by forest guards.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"592\">The deceased has been identified as Phunkha Basumatary (29), son of Nimal Basumatary and a resident of 2 No. Moinaguri village.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"853\">According to family members, Basumatary had been missing since around 3 pm on July 28 after he reportedly entered the forest to collect firewood. They alleged that he was intercepted by personnel from the Athiyabari Forest Outpost, who opened fire on him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"855\" data-end=\"1060\">His body was recovered on July 29 from a forested area west of Saralpara Picnic Spot within the Raimona forest area under the Kachugaon Forest Division, along the India-Bhutan international border.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1171\">The Forest Department had not issued an official statement on the incident at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/assamtimes.org\/article\/man-found-dead-after-alleged-firing-inside-raimona-national-park' target='_blank'>Read the original article on assamtimes.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man was found dead inside Raimona National Park in Assam&#8217;s Kokrajhar district on Tuesday, with his family alleging that he was shot by forest guards. The deceased has been identified as Phunkha Basumatary (29), son of Nimal Basumatary and a resident of 2 No. Moinaguri village. According to family members, Basumatary had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-indian-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}