{"id":991307,"date":"2026-02-11T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991307"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:22:52","slug":"digital-dacoity-uttarakhand-loses-over-rs-468-crore-to-cyber-fraud-in-five-years-cases-jump-12-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/digital-dacoity-uttarakhand-loses-over-rs-468-crore-to-cyber-fraud-in-five-years-cases-jump-12-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital dacoity: Uttarakhand loses over Rs 468 crore to cyber fraud in five years; cases jump 12-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: The crime landscape in Uttarakhand has undergone a dramatic transformation. Since the state\u2019s formation, traditional offenders involved in robbery, theft and dacoity have increasingly migrated to the digital space, unleashing a wave of cyber fraud that the Supreme Court has recently described as \u201csheer loot\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) reveals a grim picture: between 2021 and 2025, cybercriminals swindled residents of Uttarakhand of more than Rs 468 crore. Nearly 90,000 people fell victim to cyber fraud during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEHRADUN: The crime landscape in Uttarakhand has undergone a dramatic transformation. Since the state\u2019s formation, traditional offenders involved in robbery, theft and dacoity have increasingly migrated to the digital space, unleashing a wave of cyber fraud that the Supreme Court has recently described as \u201csheer loot\u201d. Data from the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) reveals a grim picture: between 2021 and 2025, cybercriminals swindled residents of Uttarakhand of more than Rs 468 crore. Nearly 90,000 people fell victim to cyber fraud during this period.<\/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-991307","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\/991307","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=991307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}