{"id":1035802,"date":"2026-09-16T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035802"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:51:53","slug":"telangana-retired-bank-employee-loses-rs-15-25-lakh-in-digital-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/telangana-retired-bank-employee-loses-rs-15-25-lakh-in-digital-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana retired bank employee loses Rs 15.25 lakh in digital arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 71-year-old retired bank employee from Kothapet lost Rs 15.25 lakh after fraudsters allegedly placed him under digital arrest for five days. <\/p>\n<p>According to the victim\u2019s complaint, he received a call from an unknown number on August 17. The caller identified himself as Ravi Kumar, a circle inspector from the crime branch in Bandra, Mumbai and falsely claimed that a criminal case had been registered against the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 71-year-old retired bank employee from Kothapet lost Rs 15.25 lakh after fraudsters allegedly placed him under digital arrest for five days. According to the victim\u2019s complaint, he received a call from an unknown number on August 17. The caller identified himself as Ravi Kumar, a circle inspector from the crime branch in Bandra, Mumbai and falsely claimed that a criminal case had been registered against the victim.<\/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-1035802","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\/1035802","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=1035802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035817,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035802\/revisions\/1035817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}