{"id":1006013,"date":"2026-04-30T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006013"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:55:13","slug":"whatsapp-disables-9400-accounts-linked-to-digital-arrest-scams-govt-tells-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/whatsapp-disables-9400-accounts-linked-to-digital-arrest-scams-govt-tells-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp disables 9,400 accounts linked to digital arrest scams, govt tells Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive initiative involving telecom regulators and service providers, the RBI, technology companies, and the CBI has been launched to combat the surge in digital arrest scams. As part of the initiative, WhatsApp has disabled 9,400 accounts linked to these crimes, the government informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts were outlined by the Ministry of Home Affairs\u2019 Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C). The status report follows the Supreme Court\u2019s 9 February mandate to suppress the rising number of digital arrest incidents nationwide, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive initiative involving telecom regulators and service providers, the RBI, technology companies, and the CBI has been launched to combat the surge in digital arrest scams. As part of the initiative, WhatsApp has disabled 9,400 accounts linked to these crimes, the government informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday. These efforts were outlined by the Ministry of Home Affairs\u2019 Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C). The status report follows the Supreme Court\u2019s 9 February mandate to suppress the rising number of digital arrest incidents nationwide, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006013","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006014,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006013\/revisions\/1006014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}