{"id":1024453,"date":"2026-07-29T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024453"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:26:21","slug":"sc-flags-rise-of-digital-arrest-frauds-asks-centre-to-codify-it-as-standalone-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/sc-flags-rise-of-digital-arrest-frauds-asks-centre-to-codify-it-as-standalone-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"SC flags rise of digital arrest frauds, asks Centre to codify it as standalone crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Central government should examine defining &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; in criminal statutes and making it a standalone offence with harsher consequences for those indulged in such kind of offences. <\/p>\n<p>A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by CJI Surya Kant, and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana explained that the digital arrest refers to cyber fraud where impersonators posing as law-enforcement or government officials use audio and video calls to intimidate victims and coerce payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Central government should examine defining &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; in criminal statutes and making it a standalone offence with harsher consequences for those indulged in such kind of offences. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by CJI Surya Kant, and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana explained that the digital arrest refers to cyber fraud where impersonators posing as law-enforcement or government officials use audio and video calls to intimidate victims and coerce payments.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024453","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=1024453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024524,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024453\/revisions\/1024524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}