{
  "id": 531789,
  "title": "Vikram’s Lar Gibbon Reel Sparks Tamil Nadu Forest Dept Probe Into CK Ranganathan Over Suspected Exotic Wildlife Trafficking",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/vikrams-lar-gibbon-reel-sparks-tamil-nadu-forest-dept-probe-into-ck",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-11T03:31:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/vikrams-lar-gibbon-reel-sparks-tamil-nadu-forest-dept-probe-into-ck-ranganathan-over-suspected-exotic-wildlife-trafficking"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chennai: An Instagram reel posted on Sunday by popular Tamil actor Vikram (Kennedy John Victor), cuddling a young monkey native to the forests of Malaysia and Indonesia, has landed his daughter’s fatherin-law, prominent businessman CK Ranganathan, in a soup with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department over its purported links to the exotic species trafficking trade. Actor Vikram and his sammandhi CK…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Trouble for Vikram after viral lar gibbon video sparks row; Forest Department to probe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/trouble-for-vikram-after-viral-lar-gibbon-video-sparks-row-forest",
        "published": "2026-08-11T07:11:29.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}