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SC flags rise in digital arrest scams, seeks Centre & CBI replies
The Morning Standard
|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 SC took cognisance of a case of digital arrest of a senior citizen couple in Ambala on the basis of forged orders of the court and probe agencies by fraudsters to extort over ₹1 crore.
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