{"id":984540,"date":"2026-01-10T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984540"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:42:22","slug":"dating-app-fraud-cops-unable-to-hinge-on-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/dating-app-fraud-cops-unable-to-hinge-on-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating app fraud: Cops unable to \u2018hinge\u2019 on leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Nearly a month after investigation began into a case where a 23-year-old woman from Kolkata was allegedly lured with promises of marriage, repeatedly sexually abused, and robbed of gold ornaments worth around Rs 40 lakh by a Kashmiri man she met on a dating app, Ernakulam Rural police continue to grope in the dark, with no concrete leads on the absconding suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Nearly a month after investigation began into a case where a 23-year-old woman from Kolkata was allegedly lured with promises of marriage, repeatedly sexually abused, and robbed of gold ornaments worth around Rs 40 lakh by a Kashmiri man she met on a dating app, Ernakulam Rural police continue to grope in the dark, with no concrete leads on the absconding suspect.<\/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-984540","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\/984540","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=984540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}