{"id":887417,"date":"2024-12-13T08:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=887417"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:52:32","slug":"rs-109-crore-swindled-in-digital-arrest-frauds-this-year-in-karnataka-minister-parameshwara-reveals-how-much-of-it-is-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/13\/rs-109-crore-swindled-in-digital-arrest-frauds-this-year-in-karnataka-minister-parameshwara-reveals-how-much-of-it-is-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 109 crore swindled in \u2018digital arrest\u2019 frauds this year in Karnataka: Minister Parameshwara reveals how much of it is recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka residents have lost Rs 109.01 crore in 2024 to \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scams, in which fraudsters impersonate law enforcement officials to deceive people into transferring large sums of money, Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Thursday. Of that amount, law enforcement agencies recovered less than one-tenth, totalling Rs 9.45 crore, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question by BJP MLC K Prathap Simha Nayak in Karnataka Legislative Council, Parameshwara said 641 \u201cdigital arrest\u201d cases were reported in the state this year and of these, 480\u2014approximately three-fourths\u2014were in Bengaluru city. He said 24 cases were reported in Mysuru and 21 in Mangaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka residents have lost Rs 109.01 crore in 2024 to \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scams, in which fraudsters impersonate law enforcement officials to deceive people into transferring large sums of money, Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Thursday. Of that amount, law enforcement agencies recovered less than one-tenth, totalling Rs 9.45 crore, he said. Responding to a question by BJP MLC K Prathap Simha Nayak in Karnataka Legislative Council, Parameshwara said 641 \u201cdigital arrest\u201d cases were reported in the state this year and of these, 480\u2014approximately three-fourths\u2014were in Bengaluru city. He said 24 cases were reported in Mysuru and 21 in Mangaluru.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887417","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=887417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}