{"id":960573,"date":"2025-09-10T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960573"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:31:37","slug":"ex-mla-falls-victim-to-digital-arrest-fraud-in-bengaluru-loses-rs-31-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/ex-mla-falls-victim-to-digital-arrest-fraud-in-bengaluru-loses-rs-31-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MLA falls victim to digital arrest fraud in Bengaluru, loses Rs 31 Lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Former Aurad MLA Gundappa Vakil was kept under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 for eight days and duped of Rs 30.99 lakh, after fraudsters set up a fake police station and courtroom through video calls. <\/p>\n<p>According to the FIR registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station, the victim, Vakil (72), a resident of Jonnekeri village in Aurad, received a phone call on August 12 from a man claiming to be a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Former Aurad MLA Gundappa Vakil was kept under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 for eight days and duped of Rs 30.99 lakh, after fraudsters set up a fake police station and courtroom through video calls. According to the FIR registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station, the victim, Vakil (72), a resident of Jonnekeri village in Aurad, received a phone call on August 12 from a man claiming to be a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer.<\/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-960573","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\/960573","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=960573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}