{"id":999331,"date":"2026-03-25T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999331"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:05:35","slug":"no-case-made-out-thane-court-grants-bail-to-coindcx-co-founders-held-for-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/no-case-made-out-thane-court-grants-bail-to-coindcx-co-founders-held-for-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No case made out&#8217;: Thane court grants bail to CoinDCX co-founders held for cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Thane district on Tuesday granted bail to two co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, arrested in an alleged Rs 71.60 lakh cheating case, holding prima facie no case was made out against them.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Nilesh Rathod, while allowing their bail plea, ordered the duo&#8217;s release upon furnishing a surety of Rs 50,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta and Khandelwal&#8217;s legal team argued before the court that they were victims of a &#8220;mistaken identity&#8221; and fraudulent impersonation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Thane district on Tuesday granted bail to two co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, arrested in an alleged Rs 71.60 lakh cheating case, holding prima facie no case was made out against them. Magistrate Nilesh Rathod, while allowing their bail plea, ordered the duo&#8217;s release upon furnishing a surety of Rs 50,000 each. Gupta and Khandelwal&#8217;s legal team argued before the court that they were victims of a &#8220;mistaken identity&#8221; and fraudulent impersonation.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999331","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=999331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}