{"id":1043979,"date":"2026-10-16T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043979"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:43:17","slug":"it-professional-ends-life-in-pune-suspected-to-be-victim-of-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/it-professional-ends-life-in-pune-suspected-to-be-victim-of-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"IT professional ends life in Pune; suspected to be victim of digital arrest scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE: A 22-year-old IT professional allegedly died by suicide in Kharadi area of Pune with his family suspecting that he was being harassed by cyber fraudsters in a digital arrest scam, police said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The man jumped to his death from a building on October 1. <\/p>\n<p>He had been receiving calls from a suspected scamster over the previous week, a police official said. No suicide note was found. Police are examining his financial transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE: A 22-year-old IT professional allegedly died by suicide in Kharadi area of Pune with his family suspecting that he was being harassed by cyber fraudsters in a digital arrest scam, police said on Thursday. The man jumped to his death from a building on October 1. He had been receiving calls from a suspected scamster over the previous week, a police official said. No suicide note was found. Police are examining his financial transactions.<\/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-1043979","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\/1043979","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=1043979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044002,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043979\/revisions\/1044002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}