{"id":991140,"date":"2026-02-10T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991140"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:22:01","slug":"absolute-robbery-sc-on-siphoning-of-over-rs-54000-crore-in-digital-arrest-cases-asks-centre-to-frame-sop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/absolute-robbery-sc-on-siphoning-of-over-rs-54000-crore-in-digital-arrest-cases-asks-centre-to-frame-sop\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolute robbery&#8217;: SC on siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore in digital arrest cases; asks Centre to frame SoP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday termed the siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore through digital arrests as nothing short of \u201crobbery or dacoity\u201d and directed the Centre to formulate a standard operating procedure (SoP) to tackle such offences.<\/p>\n<p>A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and NV Anjaria, noted that the money lost to digital fraud exceeds the annual budgets of several small states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday termed the siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore through digital arrests as nothing short of \u201crobbery or dacoity\u201d and directed the Centre to formulate a standard operating procedure (SoP) to tackle such offences. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and NV Anjaria, noted that the money lost to digital fraud exceeds the annual budgets of several small states.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991140","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=991140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}