{"id":947319,"date":"2025-07-17T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947319"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:32:32","slug":"tumakuru-man-held-for-posing-as-cybercrime-police-officer-to-extort-money-by-threatening-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/tumakuru-man-held-for-posing-as-cybercrime-police-officer-to-extort-money-by-threatening-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumakuru man held for posing as cybercrime police officer to extort money by threatening &#8216;arrests&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: A 27-year-old man from Tumakuru has been arrested for allegedly impersonating as a cybercrime police officer and extorting money from social media users by issuing fake arrest threats. <\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Sudheer Kumar Reddy C H said that the arrested is Arun T, son of late Timmaraju and a resident of Kothitopu in Tumakuru district. He has been booked at Mangaluru CEN station under Sections 66(C) and 66(D) of the Information Technology Act, and Sections 112, 308(2), and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) based on a complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: A 27-year-old man from Tumakuru has been arrested for allegedly impersonating as a cybercrime police officer and extorting money from social media users by issuing fake arrest threats. Commissioner of Police Sudheer Kumar Reddy C H said that the arrested is Arun T, son of late Timmaraju and a resident of Kothitopu in Tumakuru district. He has been booked at Mangaluru CEN station under Sections 66(C) and 66(D) of the Information Technology Act, and Sections 112, 308(2), and 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) based on a complaint.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947319","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=947319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}