{"id":1031973,"date":"2026-08-29T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031973"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:17:03","slug":"facial-recognition-checks-conducted-near-shree-jagannath-temple-in-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/29\/facial-recognition-checks-conducted-near-shree-jagannath-temple-in-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial recognition checks conducted near Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to enhance the safety of devotees and tourists, Puri police conducted a special checking drive around the Shree Jagannath Temple on Thursday night, using facial recognition and fingerprint verification to identify persons found moving suspiciously in the area. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main objective of the technology-based checking was to identify persons with criminal backgrounds. The facial recognition system and fingerprint verification can identify anti-socials from other cities or states who arrive here to commit offences by checking their details against the national criminal database,\u201d said Puri SP Prateek Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to enhance the safety of devotees and tourists, Puri police conducted a special checking drive around the Shree Jagannath Temple on Thursday night, using facial recognition and fingerprint verification to identify persons found moving suspiciously in the area. \u201cThe main objective of the technology-based checking was to identify persons with criminal backgrounds. The facial recognition system and fingerprint verification can identify anti-socials from other cities or states who arrive here to commit offences by checking their details against the national criminal database,\u201d said Puri SP Prateek Singh.<\/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-1031973","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\/1031973","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=1031973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032001,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031973\/revisions\/1032001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}