{"id":1032093,"date":"2026-08-31T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032093"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:57:08","slug":"49-year-old-surgeon-from-hyderabad-loses-rs-2-3-cr-in-online-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/49-year-old-surgeon-from-hyderabad-loses-rs-2-3-cr-in-online-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"49-year-old surgeon from Hyderabad loses Rs 2.3 cr in online scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 49-year-old surgeon working at a private hospital and residing in Bandlaguda Jagir lost Rs 2.30 crore after allegedly investing in a fake online trading platform. According to the police, the fraud began in July 2025 when the victim was added to a WhatsApp group named \u201cGrow Invest Tech Pvt Ltd.j9\u201d by a person identifying herself as Abhilasha Bisht. <\/p>\n<p>She allegedly told him that the group helped people develop trading skills and was led by a person identified as Lalit Keshre, who was introduced as a market analyst. The group allegedly offered investment opportunities in the Indian stock market through an institutional account, including block trading and IPO allocations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 49-year-old surgeon working at a private hospital and residing in Bandlaguda Jagir lost Rs 2.30 crore after allegedly investing in a fake online trading platform. According to the police, the fraud began in July 2025 when the victim was added to a WhatsApp group named \u201cGrow Invest Tech Pvt Ltd.j9\u201d by a person identifying herself as Abhilasha Bisht. She allegedly told him that the group helped people develop trading skills and was led by a person identified as Lalit Keshre, who was introduced as a market analyst. The group allegedly offered investment opportunities in the Indian stock market [&hellip;]<\/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-1032093","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\/1032093","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=1032093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032117,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032093\/revisions\/1032117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}