Rising incidents of online fraud in the country, especially digital arrests to dupe citizens by fabricating judicial orders, have come under the scanner of the Supreme Court, which Friday sought responses of the Centre and the CBI, saying such offences strike at the very foundation of public trust in the system.

The top court took cognisance of a glaring case of digital arrest of a senior citizen couple in Haryana’s Ambala on the basis of forged orders of the court and probe agencies by fraudsters to extort Rs 1.05 crore.

A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it is no ordinary crime where it could have asked the police to expedite the probe and take the case to its logical conclusion, but a matter where coordinated efforts between the central and state police are requir

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