{"id":171164,"date":"2025-03-19T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=171164"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T04:58:27","slug":"indian-armys-lieutenant-colonel-found-dead-in-ranchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/19\/indian-armys-lieutenant-colonel-found-dead-in-ranchi.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian army\u2019s lieutenant colonel found dead in Ranchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171165\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/download-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"196\" \/>Ranchi: In a possible case of suicide or murder, an Indian army\u2019s lieutenant colonel was found dead in Jharkhand state of India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the 48-year-old lieutenant colonel, Diwakar Kumar, was found dead in the parking area of a Khelgaon housing complex under the Khelgaon police station limits in Ranchi area of the state, police official said.<\/p>\n<p>Diwakar Kumar was posted at Station Headquarters in Ranchi, the police officer said, adding that he hailed from Bihar&#8217;s Muzaffarpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that the officer fell from the terrace of an eight-storey building in the complex. We are investigating whether he fell accidentally or jumped from the terrace,&#8221; Khelgaon police station in-charge Gajesh Kumar told media men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranchi: In a possible case of suicide or murder, an Indian army\u2019s lieutenant colonel was found dead in Jharkhand state of India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the 48-year-old lieutenant colonel, Diwakar Kumar, was found dead in the parking area of a Khelgaon housing complex under the Khelgaon police station limits in Ranchi area of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-171164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/download-5-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171167,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171164\/revisions\/171167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}