{"id":944895,"date":"2025-07-09T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944895"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:14:10","slug":"techie-addicted-to-online-gambling-turns-thief-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/techie-addicted-to-online-gambling-turns-thief-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Techie addicted to online gambling turns thief in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A software engineer, who was addicted to online betting and lost money to gambling, turned to theft. The Magadi Road police arrested the accused, who was involved in chain snatching and house break-in thefts. <\/p>\n<p>The accused, K N Murthy (27), a resident of Hongasandra and a native of Shivamogga, works for a private firm in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A software engineer, who was addicted to online betting and lost money to gambling, turned to theft. The Magadi Road police arrested the accused, who was involved in chain snatching and house break-in thefts. The accused, K N Murthy (27), a resident of Hongasandra and a native of Shivamogga, works for a private firm in the city.<\/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-944895","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\/944895","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=944895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}