{"id":1014242,"date":"2026-06-13T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014242"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:30:10","slug":"18-days-of-fear-rs-1-47-crore-lost-elderly-man-in-gujarat-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/13\/18-days-of-fear-rs-1-47-crore-lost-elderly-man-in-gujarat-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"18 days of fear, Rs 1.47 crore lost: Elderly man in Gujarat falls prey to &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: An elderly retired professional from Gujarat\u2019s Vadodara City was allegedly forced into an 18-day &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and cheated of Rs 1.47 crore by an organised gang that posed as top government officials. <\/p>\n<p>Threats of a multi-crore money laundering case, forged legal documents and relentless video calls trapped the elderly victim in a web of fear until his daughter exposed the scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: An elderly retired professional from Gujarat\u2019s Vadodara City was allegedly forced into an 18-day &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and cheated of Rs 1.47 crore by an organised gang that posed as top government officials. Threats of a multi-crore money laundering case, forged legal documents and relentless video calls trapped the elderly victim in a web of fear until his daughter exposed the scam.<\/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-1014242","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\/1014242","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=1014242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014264,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014242\/revisions\/1014264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}