{
  "id": 14891150,
  "title": "Pune: Postmaster Goes Missing After ₹17 Lakh Fraud Surfaces In Shirur Taluka",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/pune-postmaster-goes-missing-after-17-lakh-fraud-surfaces-in-shirur",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T06:14:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/pune/pune-postmaster-goes-missing-after-17-lakh-fraud-surfaces-in-shirur-taluka"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Pune: Customers who entrusted their savings to the Golegaon post office in Shirur taluka are suspected to have been cheated of around ₹17 lakh in an alleged fixed-deposit fraud. The branch postmaster is accused of diverting money collected from customers instead of depositing it into government accounts. He allegedly created fake passbooks and fabricated transaction records to make the deposits…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}