The Arunachal Pradesh Police on Monday arrested an IAS officer from the state in connection with allegations raised against him in a purported suicide note by a 19-year-old who died last week.

The IAS officer, Talo Potom, who is from the AGMUT cadre and was serving as Special Secretary with the Delhi government’s Public Works Department, surrendered before police in Itanagar on Monday morning. Before being transferred to Delhi in June this year, he was the DC of Itanagar.

According to Papum Pare SP Nyelam Nega, Potom has been booked for abetment of suicide and BNS sections 271 and 272, which pertain to negligent or malignant actions likely to spread the infection of “any disease dangerous to life”.

The 19-year-old is suspected to have died by suicide on October 23. According to his

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