{"id":1039129,"date":"2026-09-28T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039129"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:41:55","slug":"cji-led-bench-to-hear-plea-against-mdr-on-upi-payments-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/cji-led-bench-to-hear-plea-against-mdr-on-upi-payments-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI-led Bench to hear plea against MDR on UPI payments today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will take up on Monday a PIL challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000. <\/p>\n<p>The PIL, filed by advocate Anjan Datta, is listed for hearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on September 28. <\/p>\n<p>Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the Centre has introduced a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 to be levied on person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR will be levied on UPI transactions of up to Rs 2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will take up on Monday a PIL challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000. The PIL, filed by advocate Anjan Datta, is listed for hearing before a Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on September 28. Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the Centre has introduced a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 to be levied on person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions above Rs 2,000. However, no MDR will be levied on [&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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039129","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=1039129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039176,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039129\/revisions\/1039176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}