{"id":1006968,"date":"2026-05-05T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006968"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:47:58","slug":"gujarat-police-bust-love-guru-scam-exploiting-women-via-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/gujarat-police-bust-love-guru-scam-exploiting-women-via-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat Police bust \u2018love guru\u2019 scam exploiting women via social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a disturbing case that highlights the darker side of online exploitation, Gujarat Police have uncovered a sophisticated \u201cLove Guru\u201d scam that targeted hundreds of women through social media platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The accused, identified as Rajnish Govindlal Bhargava from Bikaner, allegedly operated under the fabricated identity of \u201cPooja Kinnar Guruma,\u201d posing as a transgender astrologer offering solutions for relationship and marital problems. Presenting himself as a spiritual healer with supernatural abilities, he used Instagram accounts and targeted advertisements on Facebook to attract vulnerable individuals seeking emotional support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a disturbing case that highlights the darker side of online exploitation, Gujarat Police have uncovered a sophisticated \u201cLove Guru\u201d scam that targeted hundreds of women through social media platforms. The accused, identified as Rajnish Govindlal Bhargava from Bikaner, allegedly operated under the fabricated identity of \u201cPooja Kinnar Guruma,\u201d posing as a transgender astrologer offering solutions for relationship and marital problems. Presenting himself as a spiritual healer with supernatural abilities, he used Instagram accounts and targeted advertisements on Facebook to attract vulnerable individuals seeking emotional support.<\/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-1006968","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\/1006968","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=1006968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006972,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006968\/revisions\/1006972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}