The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear a suo motu case concerning victims of digital arrest next week. Digital arrest is a growing form of cybercrime where fraudsters pose as law enforcement officers to intimidate victims through audio and video calls.
The top court had previously described the siphoning of over ₹54,000 crore by digital frauds as 'absolute robbery or dacoity' and asked the Centre to draft a standard operating procedure to deal with such cases.
Attorney General R Venkataramani mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, urging them to take up the matter next week.
The bench agreed to list the matter next week or at the earliest, and asked the authorities to file fresh status reports before the next date of hearing.
The top court had earlier expressed grave concern over the 'menace' of digital arrest scams and directed the CBI to identify digital arrest cases and the RBI to draft a framework for providing compensation in such cases.
