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Moneylife Digital Team 09 January 2026
Maharashtra cyber police have filed a voluminous charge-sheet running into about 2,500 pages in the Rs58-crore ‘digital arrest’ scam, detailing how a network of cybercriminals used intimidation, fake legal proceedings and a maze of mule bank accounts to defraud a 72-year-old Mumbai resident of...

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For a long time, we were told that the internet’s worst crimes lived deep in the shadows, buried inside the dark web, accessible only through Tor browsers and anonymous crypto wallets.   That story no longer holds.   Today, the biggest online black markets in history are not hidden at all....

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Shirish Shanbhag 08 January 2026
Managing a cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) often becomes complicated when rules are misunderstood, selectively applied, or ignored altogether, especially during transitional phases such as builder-managed periods or when members live outside the city. Disputes frequently arise...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2026
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging violation of borrowers’ privacy rights by non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs) and their digital lending mobile applications (Himakshi Bhargav v. Union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 January 2026
Holding Schloss Udaipur Pvt Ltd, which operates The Leela Palace at Udaipur, guilty of deficiency in hospitality services, the Chennai north district consumer disputes redressal commission ordered it to pay ₹10 lakh as compensation to a guest whose privacy was violated during her stay at the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 January 2026
The government has categorically rejected claims circulating on social media that Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to stop issuing or withdrawing ₹500 currency notes from March 2026, calling the reports false and misleading.   The clarification came after a wave of posts on platforms such as...

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Vedika, a 22-year-old engineering graduate, has been searching for her first job. She was contacted on LinkedIn by someone claiming to be a recruiter from a well-known IT services company. The profile of the recruiter looked authentic and referenced her qualifications which immediately built...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2026
In a major relief for private vehicle owners, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has announced the discontinuation of the know-your-vehicle (KYV) process for cars for all new FASTag issuances starting 1 February 2026. Rolled out quietly but enforced stringently since August 2024,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
The New Year has opened with a sharp increase in cooking fuel costs for India’s hospitality and services sector, as prices of commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders have been increased by ₹111 from 1 January 2026. However, the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), also known as jet...

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Shirish Shanbhag 01 January 2026
Disputes in cooperative housing societies usually do not happen because rules are missing, but because they are interpreted selectively or ignored altogether. Arguments in the cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) often break out over maintenance charges, how meetings and decisions are...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 31 December 2025
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has upheld a State consumer forum's decision to hold a Ludhiana-based hospital, its surgeon and pathologists at a Ludhiana medical college liable for medical negligence, over the performance of a radical facial cancer surgery on a...

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Neha Joshi ( Bar  and   Bench) 30 December 2025
A 68 year old woman from Mumbai’s Andheri West has alleged that she was duped of ₹3.71 crore in a digital arrest scam in which fraudsters staged a fake virtual court presided over by a man posing as a judge named “Chandrachud”.   The West Region Cyber Police Station has registered an FIR and...

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Bar  and   Bench 26 December 2025
The Supreme Court has invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to issue a series of steps to ensure the completion of the stalled Supernova real estate project in Noida, whose developer, Supertech Realtors Pvt Ltd., had been facing insolvency proceedings (Ram...

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It started with a moment of confusion that felt almost trivial. A Mumbai-based accountant received a message from a colleague asking why he had sent her a strange photo link at a late hour. He hadn’t. A few hours later, his phone began ringing again, this time from family members. They were...

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Shirish Shanbhag 24 December 2025
Disputes within a cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) often arise not because the law is unclear, but because procedures are ignored, responsibilities are blurred, or power is exercised arbitrarily. From failure to remit statutory dues to the informal collection of large sums without...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
The national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) has upheld a Kerala state consumer commission order holding Axis Bank and Vodafone Mobile Services jointly and severally liable for losses suffered by a customer due to a SIM-swap-enabled online banking fraud, dismissing appeals filed...

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Almost five years ago, a single sentence tucked into finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech of February 2021 should have reshaped India’s capital market regulation: “I propose to consolidate the provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, Depositories Act, 1996, Securities Contracts...

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Today, almost everyone is connected to the online world—by choice, by necessity, or simply because modern systems leave us with little alternative. Whether we are banking, shopping, working or socialising, our daily lives now run through cyberspace. That reality also means we are constantly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2025
Dismissing a writ petition seeking recovery of ₹38.78 lakh allegedly lost to fraud, the Allahabad High Court (HC) has ruled that Reserve Bank of India's (RBI’s) zero-liability framework for unauthorised electronic banking transactions cannot be invoked to recast personal banking transactions as...

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Shirish Shanbhag 18 December 2025
Disputes between cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) and their members often arise from overreach, a misunderstanding of bye-laws or arbitrary decisions taken in the name of ‘general body approval’. Whether it is unlawful demands linked to renting out a flat, confusion around corpus...

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