{"id":1010489,"date":"2026-05-28T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010489"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:31:27","slug":"singapore-court-sentences-byju-raveendran-to-6-months-in-jail-over-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/28\/singapore-court-sentences-byju-raveendran-to-6-months-in-jail-over-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore court sentences Byju Raveendran to 6 months in jail over contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Singapore court has sentenced Byju Raveendran to six months in prison, starting off what appeared to be the legal denouement of a business saga that witnessed dizzying heights, cashing in on the startup boom and the pandemic-era edtech breakthrough before crumbling under the weight of runaway expenses and rising debts. <\/p>\n<p>Raveendran, the valuation of whose education technology business spectacularly plummeted from $22 billion in 2022 to zero in 2024, had been sued in Singapore by the Qatar Investment Authority for losses incurred on his venture when it failed two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Singapore court has sentenced Byju Raveendran to six months in prison, starting off what appeared to be the legal denouement of a business saga that witnessed dizzying heights, cashing in on the startup boom and the pandemic-era edtech breakthrough before crumbling under the weight of runaway expenses and rising debts. Raveendran, the valuation of whose education technology business spectacularly plummeted from $22 billion in 2022 to zero in 2024, had been sued in Singapore by the Qatar Investment Authority for losses incurred on his venture when it failed two years ago.<\/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-1010489","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\/1010489","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=1010489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}