{"id":997793,"date":"2026-03-12T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997793"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:39:03","slug":"21-year-old-dies-following-alleged-loan-app-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/12\/21-year-old-dies-following-alleged-loan-app-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old dies following alleged loan app threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bringing concerns over the growing menace of illegal digital lending platforms to the fore, a 21-year-old from Aryanad died after allegedly attempting suicide following threats linked to a loan app. The deceased was identified as Anand aka Sachu. <\/p>\n<p>According to relatives, Anand had borrowed money through a loan app and was later subjected to harassment when he failed to repay the amount on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bringing concerns over the growing menace of illegal digital lending platforms to the fore, a 21-year-old from Aryanad died after allegedly attempting suicide following threats linked to a loan app. The deceased was identified as Anand aka Sachu. According to relatives, Anand had borrowed money through a loan app and was later subjected to harassment when he failed to repay the amount on time.<\/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-997793","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\/997793","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=997793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}