{"id":1031770,"date":"2026-08-28T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031770"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:39:38","slug":"madhya-pradesh-couple-kept-under-digital-arrest-for-97-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/madhya-pradesh-couple-kept-under-digital-arrest-for-97-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh couple kept under digital arrest for 97 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: In what police believe to be one of the longest cases of \u201cdigital arrest\u201d, a Bhopal couple lived in fear for 97 days, believing their lives were about to be destroyed by a criminal case they knew nothing about. <\/p>\n<p>Cyber fraudsters impersonating Delhi Police officers, CID investigators and even a Supreme Court judge kept a retired finance executive and his wife from Bhopal\u2019s Kolar area under constant video surveillance, monitored their movements and eventually extorted Rs 22 lakh from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: In what police believe to be one of the longest cases of \u201cdigital arrest\u201d, a Bhopal couple lived in fear for 97 days, believing their lives were about to be destroyed by a criminal case they knew nothing about. Cyber fraudsters impersonating Delhi Police officers, CID investigators and even a Supreme Court judge kept a retired finance executive and his wife from Bhopal\u2019s Kolar area under constant video surveillance, monitored their movements and eventually extorted Rs 22 lakh from them.<\/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-1031770","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\/1031770","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=1031770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031777,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031770\/revisions\/1031777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}