SATURDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 2026

Finally SC steps in, directs CBI to probe digital arrests

I would like to share my opinion in response to a news article on an infamous cybercrime in India -- digital arrest. Finally, our country has woken up, and the Supreme Court has intervened, directing the CBI to investigate and questioning the RBI. Cybercriminals in India have been running large-scale scams, impersonating Microsoft and Amazon support to defraud customers in the US, UK, and other countries for many years now. US and UK social media influencers have made videos, disclosing the alleged criminals' IDs, their location, and catching them in the act. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have collaborated with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India and other international law enforcement agencies to target call centres involved in these scams and police recently raided Musk Communications in Bengaluru, arresting 21 employees for impersonating Microsoft support and scamming US citizens. So, what were our enforcement agencies doing for so long?  Were they waiting for the scam to affect domestic victims? Now that cybercriminals have allegedly been emboldened to target their own countrymen, our agencies have taken notice, but questions remain about the timing.



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Act against duplicate voters on rolls

JERRY FERNANDES, Saligao
Published Dec 2, 2025, 8:06 PM IST
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The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sanjay Goel on Sunday has announced that nearly 90,000 names will be removed from the first draft electoral roll as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process enters its final stage. Well, these 90,000 people could be mostly Goans from the minority community who must have acquired Portuguese passports and gone in the UK/other European countries for employment. Is this what the BJP was waiting for, to delete the names of people as a…

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