{"id":554776,"date":"2023-02-10T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=554776"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:48:15","slug":"indias-poor-coal-thieves-forced-to-scavenge-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-poor-coal-thieves-forced-to-scavenge-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s poor coal &#8216;thieves&#8217; forced to scavenge for survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tip-off led police officer Indradeo Rajwar into the Nimiya Tola forests of Hazaribagh, in eastern India, hot on the trail of two men on a motorcycle carrying stolen coal.<\/p>\n<p>As Rajwar closed in, the men dumped 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) of the dirty fossil fuel and escaped. Rajwar&#8217;s report on the incident in Jharkhand state documents a story of theft that is common across India&#8217;s main coal-mining areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These forests are used as cover by people transporting stolen coal,&#8221; Rajwar said, adding that the perpetrators are mostly men aged between 18 and 35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip-off led police officer Indradeo Rajwar into the Nimiya Tola forests of Hazaribagh, in eastern India, hot on the trail of two men on a motorcycle carrying stolen coal. As Rajwar closed in, the men dumped 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) of the dirty fossil fuel and escaped. Rajwar&#8217;s report on the incident in Jharkhand state documents a story of theft that is common across India&#8217;s main coal-mining areas. &#8220;These forests are used as cover by people transporting stolen coal,&#8221; Rajwar said, adding that the perpetrators are mostly men aged between 18 and 35.<\/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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554776","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=554776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}