New Delhi, 13 January. The Central Government has filed its status report in the suo motu case taken by the Supreme Court on matters related to digital arrest. This matter is to be heard in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Central Government has told the court that in view of the seriousness of the digital arrest cases, the process of investigation has been started and work is going on on a concrete, coordinated plan for this.
The Central Government informed the Supreme Court that as per the court’s order dated December 16, 2025, the FIR of Delhi Police has now been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). After this, CBI has registered a new FIR in this case on January 9. Its objective is to deeply investigate the entire structure of the network and crime related to digital arrest.
The status report also informed that under the directions of the Supreme Court, the Home Ministry has constituted a high-level inter-departmental committee to deal with the problem of digital arrest. This committee is headed by the Special Secretary for Internal Security in the Home Ministry.
This includes senior officials from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of External Affairs, Department of Financial Services, Law Ministry, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, RBI, CBI, NIA, Delhi Police and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C). The CEO of I4C is the member secretary of this committee. The Attorney General is also regularly attending the meetings of this committee.
According to reports, the first meeting of the committee was held on December 29, in which the directions of the Supreme Court and the suggestions of the amicus curiae were discussed in detail. This was followed by a special meeting with the amicus curiae on January 2, which included representatives of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, RBI and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C). At the same time, on January 6, a meeting was also held with IT intermediaries like Google, WhatsApp, Telegram and Microsoft.
The Central Government has requested the Supreme Court to give it at least one month’s time to prepare a concrete and comprehensive plan after taking suggestions from all the departments, so that the serious problem like digital arrest can be dealt with effectively.
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