{"id":427118,"date":"2021-07-23T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427118"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T06:24:33","slug":"tamil-nadu-town-accuses-its-helicopter-brothers-of-taking-off-with-rs-600-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-town-accuses-its-helicopter-brothers-of-taking-off-with-rs-600-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu town accuses its \u2018helicopter brothers\u2019 of taking off with Rs 600 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2019, Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kumbakonam witnessed a birthday celebration that became the talk of the small town. Mariyur Ramadoss Ganesh, a dairy owner, had a helicopter shower rose petals on his one-year-old son, the birthday boy. <\/p>\n<p>Almost two years later, the high-flying Ganesh \u2014 by now the local BJP traders\u2019 wing leader \u2014 and his brother, Mariyur Ramadoss Swaminathan, are all over the town again, but for less cheerful reasons. The \u2018helicopter brothers\u2019, as they are known, have been accused of cheating people of a whopping Rs 600 crore, and posters have been stuck across Kumbakonam demanding action against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2019, Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kumbakonam witnessed a birthday celebration that became the talk of the small town. Mariyur Ramadoss Ganesh, a dairy owner, had a helicopter shower rose petals on his one-year-old son, the birthday boy. Almost two years later, the high-flying Ganesh \u2014 by now the local BJP traders\u2019 wing leader \u2014 and his brother, Mariyur Ramadoss Swaminathan, are all over the town again, but for less cheerful reasons. The \u2018helicopter brothers\u2019, as they are known, have been accused of cheating people of a whopping Rs 600 crore, and posters have been stuck across Kumbakonam demanding action against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}