{"id":1035818,"date":"2026-09-16T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035818"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:11:14","slug":"eight-persons-arrested-in-sim-card-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/eight-persons-arrested-in-sim-card-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight persons arrested in SIM card racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight persons were arrested in connection with an alleged racket that fraudulently issued SIM cards and misused them for cybercrime. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after police received \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d about suspected SIM card misuse. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis included the use of SIM cards in cybercrimes which were issued in the name of persons who were clueless that extra SIM cards had been issued in their names,\u201d said an officer of Bidhannagar cybercrime police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight persons were arrested in connection with an alleged racket that fraudulently issued SIM cards and misused them for cybercrime. The investigation began after police received \u201cactionable intelligence\u201d about suspected SIM card misuse. \u201cThis included the use of SIM cards in cybercrimes which were issued in the name of persons who were clueless that extra SIM cards had been issued in their names,\u201d said an officer of Bidhannagar cybercrime police station.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035818","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=1035818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035840,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035818\/revisions\/1035840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}