{"id":1021077,"date":"2026-07-15T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021077"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:08:51","slug":"singapore-door-shuts-on-byju-as-court-upholds-jail-term-for-founder-raveendran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/singapore-door-shuts-on-byju-as-court-upholds-jail-term-for-founder-raveendran\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore door shuts on Byju as court upholds jail term for founder Raveendran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Singapore rejected a bid by the founder of failed education start-up Byju\u2019s to overturn a six-month jail sentence, effectively barring him from returning to the city-state unless he\u2019s prepared to serve the term, according to a Bloomberg report. <\/p>\n<p>The court on July 9 declined Byju Raveendran\u2019s application to have the sentence halted, his law firm Lazareff Le Bars said in a statement on Tuesday. The court originally pronounced the sentence, for contempt, in May, and then granted a stay on it last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Singapore rejected a bid by the founder of failed education start-up Byju\u2019s to overturn a six-month jail sentence, effectively barring him from returning to the city-state unless he\u2019s prepared to serve the term, according to a Bloomberg report. The court on July 9 declined Byju Raveendran\u2019s application to have the sentence halted, his law firm Lazareff Le Bars said in a statement on Tuesday. The court originally pronounced the sentence, for contempt, in May, and then granted a stay on it last month.<\/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-1021077","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\/1021077","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=1021077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021087,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021077\/revisions\/1021087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}