{"id":1039468,"date":"2026-09-29T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039468"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:00:13","slug":"supreme-court-questions-centre-calls-for-facts-over-mdr-for-upi-transactions-over-%e2%82%b92000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/supreme-court-questions-centre-calls-for-facts-over-mdr-for-upi-transactions-over-%e2%82%b92000\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court questions Centre, calls for &#8216;facts&#8217; over MDR for UPI transactions over \u20b92,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Centre on a petition challenging the government\u2019s decision to introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) person-to-merchant transactions over \u20b92,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Anjan Datta, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said, \u201cThis is less of a legal and more of a technical issue. We need you (Centre) to state the facts on a short affidavit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Centre on a petition challenging the government\u2019s decision to introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) person-to-merchant transactions over \u20b92,000. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by advocate Anjan Datta, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said, \u201cThis is less of a legal and more of a technical issue. We need you (Centre) to state the facts on a short affidavit.\u201d<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039468","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=1039468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039469,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039468\/revisions\/1039469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}