{"id":954038,"date":"2025-08-11T07:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954038"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:43:28","slug":"drdo-employee-loses-rs-54-lakh-in-investment-fraud-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/drdo-employee-loses-rs-54-lakh-in-investment-fraud-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO employee loses Rs 54 lakh in investment fraud in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An employee at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lost Rs 54 lakh in an investment fraud. Lured with promises of high returns, the 39-year-old transferred the amount to various bank accounts provided by fraudsters. <\/p>\n<p>He told police that in May 2025, he was added to a WhatsApp group chat \u2014 ASBPL Start-Up Excellence Circle. The members claimed that a Kolkata-based firm, Abhinandan Brokerage Stock Company, had 39 members who regularly shared their profit reports and deposit receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An employee at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lost Rs 54 lakh in an investment fraud. Lured with promises of high returns, the 39-year-old transferred the amount to various bank accounts provided by fraudsters. He told police that in May 2025, he was added to a WhatsApp group chat \u2014 ASBPL Start-Up Excellence Circle. The members claimed that a Kolkata-based firm, Abhinandan Brokerage Stock Company, had 39 members who regularly shared their profit reports and deposit receipts.<\/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-954038","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\/954038","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=954038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}