{"id":1002291,"date":"2026-04-10T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002291"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:00:07","slug":"digital-extortion-racket-busted-trio-arrested-for-blackmailing-uttarakhand-restaurateur-with-faked-cockroach-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/digital-extortion-racket-busted-trio-arrested-for-blackmailing-uttarakhand-restaurateur-with-faked-cockroach-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital extortion racket busted: Trio arrested for blackmailing Uttarakhand restaurateur with faked \u2018Cockroach\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand Police have dismantled a sophisticated extortion ring operating via social media, arresting three youths from Haryana who allegedly blackmailed a restaurant owner in Srinagar Garhwal. The accused were targeting the business owner by threatening to sabotage his reputation with a manufactured video of unhygienic food. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after the victim, S.K. Jain, filed a formal complaint at the Srinagar police station. According to the police report, the suspects orchestrated a smear campaign, claiming they had found a cockroach in their meal during a visit to the restaurant in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand Police have dismantled a sophisticated extortion ring operating via social media, arresting three youths from Haryana who allegedly blackmailed a restaurant owner in Srinagar Garhwal. The accused were targeting the business owner by threatening to sabotage his reputation with a manufactured video of unhygienic food. The investigation began after the victim, S.K. Jain, filed a formal complaint at the Srinagar police station. According to the police report, the suspects orchestrated a smear campaign, claiming they had found a cockroach in their meal during a visit to the restaurant in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}