{"id":986302,"date":"2026-01-19T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986302"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:40:08","slug":"digital-arrest-rs-49-lakh-lost-to-fake-cbi-call-former-central-government-employee-gets-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/digital-arrest-rs-49-lakh-lost-to-fake-cbi-call-former-central-government-employee-gets-hunted\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest: Rs 49 lakh lost to fake CBI call, former Central government employee gets hunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-official of a Central government agency has allegedly been swindled out of \u20b949 lakh through \u201cdigital arrest\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The victim got a call from unknown individuals who claimed to be CBI officers and stated that the retired official\u2019s bank account was connected to human trafficking. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the callers posing as CBI officers allegedly threatened Asoke Kumar Paul over a WhatsApp call last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-official of a Central government agency has allegedly been swindled out of \u20b949 lakh through \u201cdigital arrest\u201d. The victim got a call from unknown individuals who claimed to be CBI officers and stated that the retired official\u2019s bank account was connected to human trafficking. Police said the callers posing as CBI officers allegedly threatened Asoke Kumar Paul over a WhatsApp call last week.<\/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-986302","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\/986302","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=986302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}