{"id":912115,"date":"2025-03-07T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=912115"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:15:08","slug":"welfare-assistant-goes-missing-after-losing-pension-funds-in-online-betting-appears-in-a-video-confesses-wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/07\/welfare-assistant-goes-missing-after-losing-pension-funds-in-online-betting-appears-in-a-video-confesses-wrongdoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare assistant goes missing after losing pension funds in online betting; appears in a video, confesses wrongdoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUNTUR: Lakshmi Prasad, a welfare assistant from Dachepalli Municipality, who went missing on March 1 along with Rs 8.43 lakh in pension funds, has surfaced in a video pleading for an opportunity to return the stolen money. <\/p>\n<p>In the video, posted on his social media accounts, Prasad appeared with his wife and children, admitted his wrongdoing, and apologised to the municipal commissioner and officials. He revealed that he had lost the pension funds in online betting and was contemplating suicide. \u201cI realise my mistake. Please give me a month to return the money,\u201d he pleaded, requesting officials not to take action against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUNTUR: Lakshmi Prasad, a welfare assistant from Dachepalli Municipality, who went missing on March 1 along with Rs 8.43 lakh in pension funds, has surfaced in a video pleading for an opportunity to return the stolen money. In the video, posted on his social media accounts, Prasad appeared with his wife and children, admitted his wrongdoing, and apologised to the municipal commissioner and officials. He revealed that he had lost the pension funds in online betting and was contemplating suicide. \u201cI realise my mistake. Please give me a month to return the money,\u201d he pleaded, requesting officials not to take [&hellip;]<\/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-912115","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\/912115","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=912115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}