{"id":13120,"date":"2026-04-20T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:00:40","slug":"130404633-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13120","title":{"rendered":"CJI expresses concern as digital arrest scams trap educated victims | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130404640,imgsize-1025118,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/digital-arrest-cases.jpg\" alt=\"CJI expresses concern as digital arrest scams trap educated victims\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chief-justice-of-india\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Chief Justice of India<\/a> Surya Kant on Monday expressed surprise that despite public warnings in the wake of cases of &#8216;digital arrest&#8217;, many educated people continue to be trapped by scamsters and robbed of their life savings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>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 &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; cybercrime will need three more weeks to formulate a robust mechanism, CJI said, &#8220;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.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>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.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/cji-expresses-concern-as-digital-arrest-scams-trap-educated-victims\/articleshow\/130404633.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Monday expressed surprise that despite public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,31407,9953,9680,723,719,720,721,31409,31408,722],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-chief-justice-of-india","tag-cybercrime","tag-digital-arrest","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-life-savings-theft","tag-scamsters","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}