{
  "id": 19917849,
  "title": "Fake journalist arrested in Navi Mumbai ₹19 lakh housing fraud case; multiple criminal cases registered against him",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/fake-journalist-arrested-in-navi-mumbai-19-lakh-housing-fraud-case",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-14T04:28:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/fake-journalist-arrested-in-navi-mumbai-19-lakh-housing-fraud-case-multiple-criminal-cases-registered-against-him/article71698172.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Navi Mumbai Police have apprehended a man accused of posing as a journalist online and defrauding people of ₹19 lakh by falsely offering them discounted houses in Ulwe. The suspect, Shailendra Dev Prakash Dwivedi, also faces unrelated criminal charges in multiple Maharashtra cases since 2023. The police found Dwivedi hiding at a hotel in Lonavala after a technical search and produced him to a court, where he was placed in four days of police custody. He is alleged to have collected the promised funds but failed to deliver the houses, prompting a criminal breach of trust and cheating complaint. Dwivedi had also allegedly threatened police officers and others on social media.",
  "summary": "Shailendra Dev Prakash Dwivedi was apprehended at a hotel in Lonavala, Pune district, shortly after midnight on November 12, following a search based on technical analysis",
  "key_points": [
    "Navi Mumbai Police arrest Shailendra Dev Prakash Dwivedi",
    "Dwivedi accused of ₹19 lakh housing fraud and multiple criminal cases",
    "Police custody for four days after hotel hiding"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The arrest of a suspect accused of using a journalistic persona to facilitate housing scams highlights the growing risk posed by online impersonation in real estate transactions.",
  "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."
}