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The Supreme Court connected Monday (February 9, 2026) described the siphoning of implicit ₹54,000 crore by digital frauds arsenic implicit "robbery oregon dacoity" and asked the Centre to draught a modular operating process successful consultation with stakeholders similar the RBI, banks and the Department of Telecommunications to woody with specified cases.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N.V. Anjaria observed that the magnitude siphoned disconnected by integer fraud is much than the budgets of galore tiny states.
Noting that specified offences whitethorn beryllium owed to either collusion by oregon the negligence of slope officials, the apical tribunal stressed the request for timely actions from the RBI and the banks.
Issuing a slew of caller directions, it asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to see the Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) of the Reserve Bank of India and akin SoP oregon decisions of the Department of Telecom (DoT) and travel up with a draught MoU successful 4 weeks to efficaciously woody with specified offences.
The Bench has besides noted that the RBI has crafted an SOP prescribing enactment by the banks to temporarily clasp debit cards to forestall cyber-enabled fraud.
It directed the CBI to place integer apprehension cases and asked the Gujarat and Delhi governments to accord authorisation to the national probe bureau to proceed with the investigations successful the identified integer apprehension cases.
The Supreme Court besides asked the RBI, the DoT and others to jointly clasp a gathering to travel up with a model for providing compensation successful integer apprehension cases. It said a pragmatic and wide attack is needed to woody with the grant of compensation to integer apprehension victims and posted the plea for a further proceeding aft 4 weeks.
It asked the authorities to record caller presumption reports earlier the adjacent day of hearing.
On December 16, the seat asked the Centre to look into the suggestions enactment guardant by the amicus curiae successful ensuring compensation to victims of integer arrests, portion voicing its interest implicit the tremendous amounts taken retired from the state by cyber criminals.
Digital apprehension is simply a increasing signifier of cybercrime successful which fraudsters airs arsenic law-enforcement officers, tribunal officials oregon unit from authorities agencies to intimidate victims done audio and video calls. They clasp the victims hostage and enactment unit connected them to wage money.
On December 1, the apical tribunal asked the CBI to transportation retired a unified pan-India probe into integer apprehension cases, and asked the RBI wherefore it is not utilizing artificial quality to hint and frost slope accounts utilized by cyber criminals.
