{"id":947614,"date":"2025-07-18T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947614"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:44:18","slug":"bescom-contract-worker-dies-by-suicide-after-fake-cbi-officer-extorts-rs-11-lakh-using-digital-arrest-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/bescom-contract-worker-dies-by-suicide-after-fake-cbi-officer-extorts-rs-11-lakh-using-digital-arrest-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"BESCOM contract worker dies by suicide after fake CBI officer extorts Rs 11 lakh using \u2018digital arrest\u2019 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 48-year-old BESCOM contract employee died by suicide after being repeatedly threatened and extorted of nearly Rs 11 lakh over a fortnight by a person claiming to be a CBI officer. Similar to the \u2018digital arrest\u2019 modus operandi of cyber crooks, the accused extorted the victim by threatening that there was an arrest warrant against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 48-year-old BESCOM contract employee died by suicide after being repeatedly threatened and extorted of nearly Rs 11 lakh over a fortnight by a person claiming to be a CBI officer. Similar to the \u2018digital arrest\u2019 modus operandi of cyber crooks, the accused extorted the victim by threatening that there was an arrest warrant against him.<\/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-947614","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\/947614","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=947614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}