{"id":995823,"date":"2026-03-02T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995823"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:56:50","slug":"retired-school-teacher-duped-of-rs-52-lakh-in-digital-arrest-case-in-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/retired-school-teacher-duped-of-rs-52-lakh-in-digital-arrest-case-in-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired school teacher duped of Rs 52 lakh in digital arrest case in TN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: A 74-year-old woman in Tiruchy was cheated of Rs 52 lakh by fraudsters online who posed as Bengaluru police officials and threatened her with arrest in a fabricated human trafficking case. <\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the woman, a retired government-aided school teacher was a resident of Thiruvanaikoil. On February 7, she received a call from an unknown number who identified himself as an officer from the Bengaluru city police. He alleged that she had handed over her Aadhaar card and ATM card to a man named \u2018Sathakathan\u2019, who was allegedly involved in human trafficking and had received Rs 3 crore as bribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: A 74-year-old woman in Tiruchy was cheated of Rs 52 lakh by fraudsters online who posed as Bengaluru police officials and threatened her with arrest in a fabricated human trafficking case. According to the police, the woman, a retired government-aided school teacher was a resident of Thiruvanaikoil. On February 7, she received a call from an unknown number who identified himself as an officer from the Bengaluru city police. He alleged that she had handed over her Aadhaar card and ATM card to a man named \u2018Sathakathan\u2019, who was allegedly involved in human trafficking and had received Rs 3 [&hellip;]<\/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-995823","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\/995823","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=995823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}