{"id":1020938,"date":"2026-07-15T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020938"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:29:11","slug":"byjus-founder-loses-bid-to-overturn-singapore-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/byjus-founder-loses-bid-to-overturn-singapore-jail-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Byju\u2019s founder loses bid to overturn Singapore jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Singapore declined a stay on the six-month jail sentence of Byju Raveendran, meaning the founder of the failed education startup risks going to prison if he returns to the city-state. <\/p>\n<p>The court on July 9 ruled against Raveendran\u2019s application to have the sentence halted, his law firm Lazareff Le Bars said in a statement Tuesday. The court originally pronounced the sentence, for contempt, in May, and then granted a stay on it last month until the next hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Singapore declined a stay on the six-month jail sentence of Byju Raveendran, meaning the founder of the failed education startup risks going to prison if he returns to the city-state. The court on July 9 ruled against Raveendran\u2019s application to have the sentence halted, his law firm Lazareff Le Bars said in a statement Tuesday. The court originally pronounced the sentence, for contempt, in May, and then granted a stay on it last month until the next hearing.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020938","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=1020938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020956,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020938\/revisions\/1020956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}