{"id":984620,"date":"2026-01-12T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984620"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:52:38","slug":"delhi-court-grants-bail-to-telecom-official-in-sim-sale-scam-rejects-cbis-custody-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/delhi-court-grants-bail-to-telecom-official-in-sim-sale-scam-rejects-cbis-custody-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi court grants bail to telecom official in SIM sale scam, rejects CBI&#8217;s custody plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Holding that further incarceration would serve no useful purpose as all material evidence is already in the custody of the investigating agency, a Delhi court has granted bail to Binu Vidhyadharan, an area sales manager of a telecom company, in a SIM sale scam case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). <\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed the CBI&#8217;s plea seeking his judicial custody for 14 days and directed his release on bail upon furnishing a personal bond of \u20b95 lakh with one surety of the like amount, subject to stringent conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Holding that further incarceration would serve no useful purpose as all material evidence is already in the custody of the investigating agency, a Delhi court has granted bail to Binu Vidhyadharan, an area sales manager of a telecom company, in a SIM sale scam case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The court dismissed the CBI&#8217;s plea seeking his judicial custody for 14 days and directed his release on bail upon furnishing a personal bond of \u20b95 lakh with one surety of the like amount, subject to stringent conditions.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984620","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=984620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}