{"id":1039425,"date":"2026-09-29T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039425"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:22:53","slug":"upi-mdr-row-sc-refuses-interim-stay-on-levy-asks-centre-and-rbi-to-file-counter-affidavits-within-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/upi-mdr-row-sc-refuses-interim-stay-on-levy-asks-centre-and-rbi-to-file-counter-affidavits-within-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR row: SC refuses interim stay on levy, asks Centre and RBI to file counter affidavits within 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant an interim stay on the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, however, agreed to hear the public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the levy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant an interim stay on the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, PTI reported. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, however, agreed to hear the public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the levy.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039425","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=1039425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039426,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039425\/revisions\/1039426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}