{"id":923542,"date":"2025-04-19T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923542"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:30:13","slug":"digital-arrest-scam-retired-army-colonel-wife-duped-of-rs-49-lakh-in-himachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/digital-arrest-scam-retired-army-colonel-wife-duped-of-rs-49-lakh-in-himachal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Digital arrest&#8217; scam: Retired army colonel, wife duped of Rs 49 lakh in Himachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMIRPUR: Cybercriminals allegedly placed a retired Indian Army colonel and his wife under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and duped them of Rs 49 lakh in this Himachal Pradesh district, police said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The complainant received a video call on WhatsApp in which a man introduced himself as an &#8220;officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The suspected fraudster claimed that the retired army officer&#8217;s Aadhaar was used to procure four SIM cards and open a bank account in Mumbai that was used to launder Rs 2 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMIRPUR: Cybercriminals allegedly placed a retired Indian Army colonel and his wife under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and duped them of Rs 49 lakh in this Himachal Pradesh district, police said on Friday. The complainant received a video call on WhatsApp in which a man introduced himself as an &#8220;officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch&#8221;. The suspected fraudster claimed that the retired army officer&#8217;s Aadhaar was used to procure four SIM cards and open a bank account in Mumbai that was used to launder Rs 2 crore.<\/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-923542","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\/923542","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=923542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}