{"id":1039379,"date":"2026-09-29T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039379"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:05:33","slug":"sc-refuses-to-stay-centres-decision-to-impose-fee-on-upi-transactions-over-rs-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/sc-refuses-to-stay-centres-decision-to-impose-fee-on-upi-transactions-over-rs-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"SC refuses to stay Centre\u2019s decision to impose fee on UPI transactions over Rs 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Centre\u2019s decision to impose Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000. The court was hearing a plea challenging the new UPI fee framework. <\/p>\n<p>The top court sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition challenging the decision. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana agreed to hear the plea and directed the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India and others to file their counter affidavits within four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Centre\u2019s decision to impose Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000. The court was hearing a plea challenging the new UPI fee framework. The top court sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition challenging the decision. A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana agreed to hear the plea and directed the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India and others to file their counter affidavits within four weeks.<\/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-1039379","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\/1039379","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=1039379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039398,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039379\/revisions\/1039398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}