{"id":1006290,"date":"2026-05-01T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006290"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:45:03","slug":"delhi-digital-arrest-scam-retired-engineer-duped-of-rs-10-crore-cbi-starts-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/delhi-digital-arrest-scam-retired-engineer-duped-of-rs-10-crore-cbi-starts-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi digital arrest scam: Retired engineer duped of Rs 10 crore, CBI starts probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI has registered a case in connection with the \u201cdigital arrest\u201d of a 73-year-old retired engineer from Delhi\u2019s Rohini who was allegedly swindled out of \u20b910 crore by cyber criminals posing as police and employees of a multinational courier company. <\/p>\n<p>They claimed that a consignment, booked using his Aadhaar card, to China had been returned. Subsequently, they connected him with their associates who posed as officers from Mumbai police. They coerced him to shell out money through a series of transactions in the name of the police and the Enforcement Directorate chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI has registered a case in connection with the \u201cdigital arrest\u201d of a 73-year-old retired engineer from Delhi\u2019s Rohini who was allegedly swindled out of \u20b910 crore by cyber criminals posing as police and employees of a multinational courier company. They claimed that a consignment, booked using his Aadhaar card, to China had been returned. Subsequently, they connected him with their associates who posed as officers from Mumbai police. They coerced him to shell out money through a series of transactions in the name of the police and the Enforcement Directorate chief.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006290","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=1006290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006304,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006290\/revisions\/1006304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}