{"id":835890,"date":"2024-07-22T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835890"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:16:17","slug":"bsnl-co-operative-society-scam-death-of-prime-accused-leaves-victims-in-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/bsnl-co-operative-society-scam-death-of-prime-accused-leaves-victims-in-a-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL co-operative society scam: Death of prime accused leaves victims in a fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The death of A R Gopinathan, the prime accused in the BSNL Engineers Cooperative Society case, has come as a major setback to victims of the cooperative scam. The 74-year-old, who was under treatment, passed away at his residence in Balaramapuram on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The unfinished inquiry had already raised concerns among victims, who now find themselves in a state of uncertainty with large tracts of land in Thiruvananthapuram and many properties in Kollam yet to be seized. The nearly Rs 260-crore scam, affecting more than 1,500 depositors, most if them BSNL pensioners, emerged in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The death of A R Gopinathan, the prime accused in the BSNL Engineers Cooperative Society case, has come as a major setback to victims of the cooperative scam. The 74-year-old, who was under treatment, passed away at his residence in Balaramapuram on Saturday. The unfinished inquiry had already raised concerns among victims, who now find themselves in a state of uncertainty with large tracts of land in Thiruvananthapuram and many properties in Kollam yet to be seized. The nearly Rs 260-crore scam, affecting more than 1,500 depositors, most if them BSNL pensioners, emerged in 2022.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835890","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=835890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}