{"id":1015518,"date":"2026-06-18T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015518"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:17:14","slug":"cyber-fraudsters-are-parasites-must-be-dealt-with-sternly-says-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/cyber-fraudsters-are-parasites-must-be-dealt-with-sternly-says-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber fraudsters are parasites, must be dealt with sternly, says Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday described cyber fraudsters as \u201cparasites\u201d and said those who cheat innocent citizens must be dealt with sternly, observing that society\u2019s interests are best served when such offenders remain behind bars, as it refused to entertain a plea by an alleged cyber fraud accused seeking the clubbing of multiple cases and bail.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice V Mohana said, \u201cYou people are parasites,\u201d as it dealt with a petition filed by one Manoj Kumar Singh, who is facing multiple cases of cyber fraud in Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday described cyber fraudsters as \u201cparasites\u201d and said those who cheat innocent citizens must be dealt with sternly, observing that society\u2019s interests are best served when such offenders remain behind bars, as it refused to entertain a plea by an alleged cyber fraud accused seeking the clubbing of multiple cases and bail. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice V Mohana said, \u201cYou people are parasites,\u201d as it dealt with a petition filed by one Manoj Kumar Singh, who is facing multiple cases of cyber fraud in Bihar, Tamil Nadu and [&hellip;]<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015518","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=1015518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015519,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015518\/revisions\/1015519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}