New Delhi, April 28 -- A comprehensive initiative involving telecom regulators and service providers, the RBI, technology companies, and the CBI has been launched to combat the surge in digital arrest scams. As part of the initiative, WhatsApp has disabled 9,400 accounts linked to these crimes, the government informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

These efforts were outlined by the Ministry of Home Affairs' Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C). The status report follows the Supreme Court's 9 February mandate to suppress the rising number of digital arrest incidents nationwide, according to sources.

A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, which took suo motu cognisance of online fraud, had previously ordered the RBI, Department o...