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The Supreme Court connected Monday (November 17, 2025) forbid courts beneath from granting bail to accused persons who duped a 72-year-old pistillate lawyer retired of her savings worthy ₹ 3.29 crore done a digital apprehension scam.
Appearing earlier a Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant, the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association, represented by its president, advocator Vipin Nair, said the scamsters had sounded “very real” to her astatine the time.
A visibly moved Justice Kant said specified fertile cases of deception of elder citizens merit “unusual orders”.
“We person to woody with these cases sternly truthful that the close connection is sent. An antithetic improvement needs antithetic intervention,” Justice Kant observed.
Mr. Nair submitted that the aged pistillate lawyer had mislaid her savings successful the scam. The accused, who were arrested pursuing the registration of the FIR successful May this year, were astir to beryllium released connected statutory bail.
The court, during a November 3 hearing, had referred to a confidential study to enactment that fraudsters had already scammed implicit ₹3,000 crore from their victims, mostly drawn from the aged population, done ‘digital arrests’.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for the Centre, had submitted that the societal and economical impacts of integer apprehension scams were “beyond what they had expected”.
Justice Kant had said the judiciary would walk harsh and stringent orders to fortify the hands of the agencies against the fraudsters.
In an earlier hearing, the apex tribunal had orally mooted tasking the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with the task of probing the menace of integer arrests orchestrated by fraudsters posing arsenic judges and constabulary officers who usage forged documents.
