Supreme Court terms digital fraud absolute ‘dacoity’, seeks timely actions from RBI, banks
The top court noted that the RBI has already crafted a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) directing banks to temporarily block debit cards and take immediate preventive steps once digital fraud is detected. Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other banks to take timely action in the cases of digital arrests. Describing the siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore by digital frauds as absolute "robbery or dacoity", the top court said that such incidents couldn't have occurred without possible collusion or negligence on the part of bank officials. The court also asked the…