PLA beat up, gave electric shocks to Indian teenager Miram Taron: BJP MP

NEW DELHI: FEB. 2 – Indian national Miram Taron, a 17-year-old native of Arunachal Pradesh who, in January, went missing on the border between India and China, was subjected to electric shocks by the neighbouring country’s Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA), claimed Tapir Gao, a parliamentarian from the northeastern state.

“I’ve received news that Miram Taron was beaten up and given electric shocks by the PLA. This is a serious matter. I urge the government to raise the issues with the authorities concerned,” news agency ANI quoted Gao, a Lok Sabha MP of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as saying.