{"id":1026402,"date":"2026-08-05T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026402"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:42:41","slug":"supreme-court-orders-cyber-safeguards-with-nationwide-steps-to-curb-digital-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/supreme-court-orders-cyber-safeguards-with-nationwide-steps-to-curb-digital-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders cyber safeguards with nationwide steps to curb digital fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a series of nationwide directions, asking the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) within four weeks for freezing all mule accounts linked to cyber-related offences, including accounts used to receive proceeds from digital arrest scams and extortion. <\/p>\n<p>The apex court also directed the Centre, states and Union Territories (UTs) to operationalise grievance redressal and money restoration modules in their respective jurisdictions, along with the \u2018e-Zero FIR\u2019 registration system, to ensure prompt registration of complaints relating to cyber frauds instead of waiting for jurisdictional police officers to register an FIR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a series of nationwide directions, asking the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) within four weeks for freezing all mule accounts linked to cyber-related offences, including accounts used to receive proceeds from digital arrest scams and extortion. The apex court also directed the Centre, states and Union Territories (UTs) to operationalise grievance redressal and money restoration modules in their respective jurisdictions, along with the \u2018e-Zero FIR\u2019 registration system, to ensure prompt registration of complaints relating to cyber frauds instead of waiting for jurisdictional police officers to register an [&hellip;]<\/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-1026402","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\/1026402","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=1026402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026420,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026402\/revisions\/1026420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}