{"id":24359,"date":"2020-11-01T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/01\/two-men-arrested-india-aladdin-lamp-con"},"modified":"2020-11-01T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:03:43","slug":"two-men-arrested-in-india-over-70000-aladdins-lamp-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24359","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested in India over \u00a370,000 &#8216;Aladdin&#8217;s lamp&#8217; con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laeek Khan alleges he was duped by pair who even pretended to conjure up a genie<\/p>\n<p>Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an \u201cAladdin\u2019s lamp\u201d for more than \u00a370,000 \u2013 even conjuring up a fake genie \u2013 have been arrested in India, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after he realised the lamp did not have any magical powers, as described in the popular folk tale about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/may\/26\/aladdin-live-action-review-guy-ritchie-will-smith\">Aladdin<\/a> and his wish-granting genie that appears when it is rubbed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/01\/two-men-arrested-india-aladdin-lamp-con\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laeek Khan alleges he was duped by pair who even pretended to conjure up a genieTwo men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an \u201cAladdin\u2019s lamp\u201d for more than \u00a370,000 \u2013 even conjuring up a fake genie \u2013 have been arrested in India, according to offi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24360,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}