{"id":982369,"date":"2025-12-29T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982369"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:18:48","slug":"why-indias-betting-on-new-tactic-against-digital-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/29\/why-indias-betting-on-new-tactic-against-digital-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India\u2019s betting on new tactic against digital arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As another year winds down, a cybercrime epidemic of mindboggling proportions continues unabated in India. Striking with impunity and alarming frequency, there is seemingly no tactic that\u2019s too bizarre and no target that\u2019s out of reach for cyber fraudsters. Earlier this year, a doctor in Gujarat was kept under video surveillance for three months, reportedly losing \u20b919 crore during her digital-arrest ordeal. More recently, a former Punjab Police IG was defrauded of more than \u20b98 crore in an investment scam. The shock led him to shoot himself in the chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As another year winds down, a cybercrime epidemic of mindboggling proportions continues unabated in India. Striking with impunity and alarming frequency, there is seemingly no tactic that\u2019s too bizarre and no target that\u2019s out of reach for cyber fraudsters. Earlier this year, a doctor in Gujarat was kept under video surveillance for three months, reportedly losing \u20b919 crore during her digital-arrest ordeal. More recently, a former Punjab Police IG was defrauded of more than \u20b98 crore in an investment scam. The shock led him to shoot himself in the chest.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982369","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=982369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}