Terming it a matter of “grave concern”, the Supreme Court on Friday (October 17, 2025) took suo motu (on its own motion) cognisance of the growing menace of “digital arrests” scams and sought responses from the Union government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi initiated the proceedings after receiving a complaint from a septuagenarian woman in Ambala, who alleged that fraudsters posing as CBI officials and judicial authorities had forged Supreme Court orders to defraud her of over ₹1 crore. She later lodged FIRs with the Cyber Crime Branch of the Ambala police in Haryana.
