Plea over ‘new age’ cyber crimes: Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply
The Hindu
Delhi High Court seeks Centre's response on petition against new age cyber crimes like "digital arrests" for awareness and simplified procedures.
The Delhi High Court on Friday (February 7, 2025) asked the Centre to respond to a petition against “new age” cyber crimes such as “digital arrests”. The petition sought directions to create awareness and simplify procedures to file complaints against cyber crimes.
The petitioners, advocates Akshya and Urvashi Bhatia, said the perpetrators of “mutating menace” of cyber crime were now employing “sophisticated tactics” to exploit the system by forging of court orders, including those of the Supreme Court, and FIRs and arrest warrants to extort “settlement money” from innocent unsuspecting citizens.
Their plea said one of the petitioners came across a “forged and fabricated” warrant of arrest, purportedly issued by a Delhi court, pursuant to a “digital arrest” cyber scam.
“The petition has been filed to bring to the notice of this court the issue of rapidly multiplying and mutating menace of cyber crime which has now taken an even perilous turn and emerged into the new kind of skullduggery, that is ‘digital arrest’ scam which pose a greater severe threat and is of grave concern as these scams have now infiltrated into the very fabric of our criminal justice system, endangering its integrity and functionality,” it said.
It highlighted instances of impersonation of government and police officials by the criminals, which exploited the public’s trust in institutions.
The court allowed the Centre four weeks’ time and posted the case for further hearing on March 19.
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