{"id":1039427,"date":"2026-09-29T10:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039427"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:23:19","slug":"sc-questions-legal-basis-for-new-upi-charges-declines-plea-to-stay-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/sc-questions-legal-basis-for-new-upi-charges-declines-plea-to-stay-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"SC questions legal basis for new UPI charges, declines plea to stay levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Centre&#8217;s decision to levy fees on select UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, but sought an affidavit from the government explaining the basis for introducing a new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR).<\/p>\n<p>The apex court also issued notice to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the payments regulator, and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which operates the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the Centre&#8217;s decision to levy fees on select UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, but sought an affidavit from the government explaining the basis for introducing a new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). The apex court also issued notice to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the payments regulator, and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which operates the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) network.<\/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-1039427","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\/1039427","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=1039427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039428,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039427\/revisions\/1039428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}