{"id":527631,"date":"2022-10-06T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527631"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:08:04","slug":"police-probe-assam-sim-mystery-in-bengaluru-con-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/police-probe-assam-sim-mystery-in-bengaluru-con-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe Assam SIM mystery in Bengaluru con job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conmen cheated a landowner of Rs 1.6 lakh by posing as officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). <\/p>\n<p>While such con jobs aren&#8217;t uncommon, what has stumped the police is the fact that the fraudsters used Assam-registered SIMs to make phone calls. They bought the SIMs from Hosur, and police believe the Tamil Nadu city is becoming a thriving hub for selling SIMs from outside the state for such illegal activities. <\/p>\n<p>Y Srinivasa Reddy, 68, is a trustee of Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Niketan, Bagepalli, and also owns real estate on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad national highway (number 44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conmen cheated a landowner of Rs 1.6 lakh by posing as officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). While such con jobs aren&#8217;t uncommon, what has stumped the police is the fact that the fraudsters used Assam-registered SIMs to make phone calls. They bought the SIMs from Hosur, and police believe the Tamil Nadu city is becoming a thriving hub for selling SIMs from outside the state for such illegal activities. Y Srinivasa Reddy, 68, is a trustee of Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Niketan, Bagepalli, and also owns real estate on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad national highway (number 44).<\/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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527631","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=527631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}