{"id":981728,"date":"2025-12-23T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981728"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:28:54","slug":"ex-ips-officer-amar-singh-chahal-attempts-suicide-alleges-rs-8-crore-cyber-fraud-in-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/ex-ips-officer-amar-singh-chahal-attempts-suicide-alleges-rs-8-crore-cyber-fraud-in-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-IPS officer Amar Singh Chahal attempts suicide, alleges Rs 8 crore cyber fraud in note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former IPS officer Amar Singh Chahal allegedly shot himself with the rifle of his security guard on Monday, leaving behind a detailed note that points to a massive cyber fraud and his own sense of collapse in its aftermath. <\/p>\n<p>Chahal, a former Punjab Inspector General of Police, was rushed to a hospital with a gunshot injury to the chest. Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police Varun Sharma said the bullet struck his chest and lodged in his lungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IPS officer Amar Singh Chahal allegedly shot himself with the rifle of his security guard on Monday, leaving behind a detailed note that points to a massive cyber fraud and his own sense of collapse in its aftermath. Chahal, a former Punjab Inspector General of Police, was rushed to a hospital with a gunshot injury to the chest. Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police Varun Sharma said the bullet struck his chest and lodged in his lungs.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981728","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=981728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}