{"id":1045681,"date":"2026-10-29T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045681"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:22:51","slug":"sc-calls-cybercrime-digital-dacoity-refuses-consolidation-of-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/29\/sc-calls-cybercrime-digital-dacoity-refuses-consolidation-of-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SC calls cybercrime \u2018digital dacoity&#8217;, refuses consolidation of cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed cybercrimes involving digital arrests \u201cdigital dacoity\u201d and refused to consolidate 35 criminal cases pending against two persons across 12 states over allegations that they allowed their company\u2019s bank account to be used as a mule account to facilitate offences. <\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana strongly criticised organised cybercrime rackets targeting senior citizens through digital arrests, stressing that those involved must face stringent action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed cybercrimes involving digital arrests \u201cdigital dacoity\u201d and refused to consolidate 35 criminal cases pending against two persons across 12 states over allegations that they allowed their company\u2019s bank account to be used as a mule account to facilitate offences. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana strongly criticised organised cybercrime rackets targeting senior citizens through digital arrests, stressing that those involved must face stringent action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045681","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045683,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045681\/revisions\/1045683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}