India, Nov. 3 -- The Supreme Court on Monday said that digital arrest fraud needs to be dealt with an "iron hand" after it was informed by the Centre that an estimated Rs.3,000 crore had been collected from Indian citizens alone, particularly targeting the elderly persons, who were robbed of their entire life savings.

A bench headed by justice Surya Kant said, "If we ignore this problem or cow down now and don't pass stringent orders, the problem will magnify. We are determined to deal with this problem with an iron hand."

The observations by the court came after it went through a sealed cover report submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a suo motu proceeding taken on a letter r...