{"id":47624,"date":"2022-08-18T23:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/indian-gang-ran-fake-police-station-out-of-hotel-for-eight-months"},"modified":"2022-08-18T23:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:23:14","slug":"indian-gang-ran-fake-police-station-out-of-hotel-for-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47624","title":{"rendered":"Indian gang ran fake police station out of hotel for eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six arrested but ringleader still at large after fraudsters in Bihar charged money to locals and paid others to work there<\/p>\n<p>An Indian gang operated a fake police station from a hotel for eight months where they dressed up as officers and are believed to have extorted money from hundreds of people, an official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents of fraudsters pretending to be police or soldiers are common in India, where there is widespread fear of and respect for those in uniform, but setting up a bogus police station takes the scams up a level.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/18\/indian-gang-ran-fake-police-station-out-of-hotel-for-eight-months\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six arrested but ringleader still at large after fraudsters in Bihar charged money to locals and paid others to work thereAn Indian gang operated a fake police station from a hotel for eight months where they dressed up as officers and are believed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3268,"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-47624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624","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\/3268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47625,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}