{"id":987734,"date":"2026-01-26T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987734"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:34:12","slug":"rs-90-lakh-lost-to-digital-arrest-70-year-old-new-town-resident-falls-in-fraud-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/rs-90-lakh-lost-to-digital-arrest-70-year-old-new-town-resident-falls-in-fraud-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 90 lakh lost to digital arrest, 70-year-old New Town resident falls in fraud web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old resident of New Town has been cheated out of \u20b990 lakh after cybercriminals placed him under \u201cdigital arrest\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Arun Kumar Raha, a resident of Sukhobrishti Apartment in New Town, filed a complaint with the cyber cell of the Bidhannagar City Police last week, claiming that a group of fraudsters contacted him in the guise of telecom department officials and a senior IPS officer, threatening arrest based on a fictitious Supreme Court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old resident of New Town has been cheated out of \u20b990 lakh after cybercriminals placed him under \u201cdigital arrest\u201d. Arun Kumar Raha, a resident of Sukhobrishti Apartment in New Town, filed a complaint with the cyber cell of the Bidhannagar City Police last week, claiming that a group of fraudsters contacted him in the guise of telecom department officials and a senior IPS officer, threatening arrest based on a fictitious Supreme Court order.<\/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-987734","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\/987734","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=987734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}