{"id":1027956,"date":"2026-08-11T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027956"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:24:27","slug":"tn-petrol-pumps-threaten-upi-boycott-over-bank-freezes-cybercrime-linked-police-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/tn-petrol-pumps-threaten-upi-boycott-over-bank-freezes-cybercrime-linked-police-action\/","title":{"rendered":"TN petrol pumps threaten UPI boycott over bank freezes, cybercrime-linked police action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Petrol pump operators the state have threatened to stop accepting UPI and other digital payments across the state, citing a growing risk of arbitrary bank account freezes and police action arising from disputed transactions linked to cybercrime investigations. <\/p>\n<p>Tamil Nadu Petroleum Dealers Association (TNPDA) president KP Murali, who wrote a letter to Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, said dealers were being treated as suspects in cybercrime cases despite they having no means of verifying the identity or source of funds of customers who pay digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Petrol pump operators the state have threatened to stop accepting UPI and other digital payments across the state, citing a growing risk of arbitrary bank account freezes and police action arising from disputed transactions linked to cybercrime investigations. Tamil Nadu Petroleum Dealers Association (TNPDA) president KP Murali, who wrote a letter to Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, said dealers were being treated as suspects in cybercrime cases despite they having no means of verifying the identity or source of funds of customers who pay digitally.<\/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-1027956","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\/1027956","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=1027956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027986,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027956\/revisions\/1027986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}