{"id":1016327,"date":"2026-06-23T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016327"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:45:20","slug":"digital-detox-haryana-village-unplugs-to-shed-cybercrime-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/digital-detox-haryana-village-unplugs-to-shed-cybercrime-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital detox: Haryana village unplugs to shed cybercrime tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: For years, Nuh\u2019s villages have been synonymous with cyber fraud investigations across the country. Now, one village is attempting a dramatic break from that image. In Sukhpuri, residents publicly smashed 55 smartphones after a panchayat resolved that no villager would use one again, arguing that the devices had become both the tool of cybercrime and a source of social disruption. <\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at a recent panchayat attended by villagers, community elders and police. Convinced that easy access to smartphones had fuelled both online fraud and social problems,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: For years, Nuh\u2019s villages have been synonymous with cyber fraud investigations across the country. Now, one village is attempting a dramatic break from that image. In Sukhpuri, residents publicly smashed 55 smartphones after a panchayat resolved that no villager would use one again, arguing that the devices had become both the tool of cybercrime and a source of social disruption. The decision was taken at a recent panchayat attended by villagers, community elders and police. Convinced that easy access to smartphones had fuelled both online fraud and social problems,<\/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-1016327","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\/1016327","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=1016327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016353,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016327\/revisions\/1016353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}