{"id":1039934,"date":"2026-09-30T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039934"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:15","slug":"supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-issues-notice-to-centre-rbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-mdr-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-issues-notice-to-centre-rbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court refuses to stay MDR on UPI payments above Rs 2,000; issues notice to Centre, RBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India and others on a PIL challenging the decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions of over Rs 2,000 from October 15. <\/p>\n<p>A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, however, refused to stay the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose MDR on specified Unified Payments Interface (UPI) P2M transactions of over Rs 2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India and others on a PIL challenging the decision to impose a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions of over Rs 2,000 from October 15. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, however, refused to stay the Centre&#8217;s decision to impose MDR on specified Unified Payments Interface (UPI) P2M transactions of over Rs 2,000.<\/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-1039934","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\/1039934","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=1039934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039935,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039934\/revisions\/1039935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}