{"id":1005766,"date":"2026-04-29T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005766"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:36:16","slug":"centre-cracks-down-on-digital-arrest-scams-whatsapp-bans-9400-accounts-new-safeguards-in-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/centre-cracks-down-on-digital-arrest-scams-whatsapp-bans-9400-accounts-new-safeguards-in-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre cracks down on digital arrest scams; WhatsApp bans 9,400 accounts, new safeguards in works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-pronged action involving telecom regulators, service providers, the RBI, tech giants and the CBI has been taken to tackle the rising menace of digital arrest scams, besides WhatsApp banning 9,400 accounts involved in such offences, the Centre has told the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>The action was detailed by the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which has filed a comprehensive status report in pursuance of the Supreme Court\u2019s directions of February 9 to curb rising cases of digital arrests in the country, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-pronged action involving telecom regulators, service providers, the RBI, tech giants and the CBI has been taken to tackle the rising menace of digital arrest scams, besides WhatsApp banning 9,400 accounts involved in such offences, the Centre has told the Supreme Court. The action was detailed by the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) which has filed a comprehensive status report in pursuance of the Supreme Court\u2019s directions of February 9 to curb rising cases of digital arrests in the country, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005784,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005766\/revisions\/1005784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}