{"id":898177,"date":"2025-01-21T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=898177"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:51:24","slug":"retired-government-official-held-under-digital-arrest-for-18-days-duped-of-rs-40-lakh-by-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/21\/retired-government-official-held-under-digital-arrest-for-18-days-duped-of-rs-40-lakh-by-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Government official held under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 for 18 days, duped of Rs 40 lakh by fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired government official from Faridabad was duped of Rs 40 lakh by fraudsters posing as TRAI and Mumbai Police officials, who placed her under &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; for 18 days. According to the police on Sunday, the victim, Monika, who retired from her post as Labour Welfare Commissioner with the Central Ministry, lives with her 90-year-old mother in Faridabad, while her daughter resides in Delhi, police added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn November 11 last year, she received a call on her mobile from an unknown number and was held hostage for the next 18 days,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired government official from Faridabad was duped of Rs 40 lakh by fraudsters posing as TRAI and Mumbai Police officials, who placed her under &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; for 18 days. According to the police on Sunday, the victim, Monika, who retired from her post as Labour Welfare Commissioner with the Central Ministry, lives with her 90-year-old mother in Faridabad, while her daughter resides in Delhi, police added. \u201cOn November 11 last year, she received a call on her mobile from an unknown number and was held hostage for the next 18 days,\u201d police said.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898177","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=898177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}