{"id":1018945,"date":"2026-07-04T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018945"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:01:13","slug":"3-held-for-rs-2-07-crore-digital-arrest-fraud-targeting-retiree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/3-held-for-rs-2-07-crore-digital-arrest-fraud-targeting-retiree\/","title":{"rendered":"3 held for Rs 2.07-crore digital arrest fraud targeting retiree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI on Friday arrested three persons after conducting searches at seven locations across Odisha and Rajasthan in connection with a digital arrest scam in which a retired government employee was swindled out of \u20b92.07 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The accused were identified as Bibekananda Dixit and Jayant Kumar Acharya from Balasore, Odisha, and Kanhaiya Lal from Nagaur, Rajasthan. \u201cThe trio were allegedly involved in conning a Jalandhar-based retired government employee who was coerced into transferring \u20b92.07 crore under the threat of digital arrest,\u201d said a CBI official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI on Friday arrested three persons after conducting searches at seven locations across Odisha and Rajasthan in connection with a digital arrest scam in which a retired government employee was swindled out of \u20b92.07 crore. The accused were identified as Bibekananda Dixit and Jayant Kumar Acharya from Balasore, Odisha, and Kanhaiya Lal from Nagaur, Rajasthan. \u201cThe trio were allegedly involved in conning a Jalandhar-based retired government employee who was coerced into transferring \u20b92.07 crore under the threat of digital arrest,\u201d said a CBI official.<\/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-1018945","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\/1018945","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=1018945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018965,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018945\/revisions\/1018965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}