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SC flags digital arrests, says assault on rule of law
The New Indian Express Vellore
|October 18, 2025
VOICING serious concern over digital arrests, the Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of such incidents in which fraudsters allegedly impersonate law enforcement agencies and fabricate judicial orders to extort money from people, particularly senior citizens, and sought responses from Centre and the CBI.
The top court took cognisance of a glaring case of digital arrest of a senior citizen couple in Haryana's Ambala on the basis of forged orders of the court and probe agencies by fraudsters to extort over ₹1 crore.
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vellore.
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