CJI Surya Kant Surprised Educated People Continue Falling for Digital Arrest Scams
Supreme Court hears that inter-departmental task force needs three more weeks to formulate anti-digital arrest mechanism; seven arrested in Rs 2.5 crore Chandigarh case
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- Chief Justice of India Surya Kant expressed surprise that despite public warnings, educated people continue falling victim to digital arrest scams.
- The Supreme Court heard that a former senior official of Chandigarh was robbed of Rs 2.5 crore through such scams.
- Police have arrested seven persons for keeping a 70-year-old former chief architect of Chandigarh under digital arrest from May 3 to 30 last year.
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Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Monday expressed surprise that despite public warnings in the wake of cases of 'digital arrest', many educated people continue to be trapped by scamsters and robbed of their life savings. When attorney general R Venkataramani informed the Supreme Court bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that the inter-departmental task force to counter 'digital arrest' cybercrime will need three more weeks to formulate a robust mechanism, CJI said, "In the meanwhile, I have received another complaint from a former senior official of Chandigarh, who was robbed of Rs 2.5 crore through digital arrest." Police have arrested seven persons for keeping the 70-year-old former chief architect of Chandigarh under digital arrest from May 3 to 30 last year. Venkataramani said he is pushing the inter-departmental committee to devise a robust anti-digital arrest mechanism in consultation with cyber experts and that govt intends to create a dedicated number to lodge complaints against threats of digital arrest.