{
  "id": 1192298,
  "title": "Mumbai: Retired College Principal Loses ₹17 Lakh In Cyber Fraud Over Fake SIR Voter Roll Update",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/mumbai-retired-college-principal-loses-17-lakh-in-cyber-fraud-over",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-16T03:25:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-retired-college-principal-loses-17-lakh-in-cyber-fraud-over-fake-sir-voter-roll-update"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai: A retired college principal lost `17 lakh after cyber fraudsters posing as poll officials trapped him on the pretext of rectifying a discrepancy related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The Deonar resident is said to be the first victim of such a scam. The fraudsters allegedly tricked him into downloading an .APK file on August 8, claiming that his father’s name had been…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}