Overview
- The government told the Supreme Court it formed a high-level Inter-Departmental Committee on December 26, 2025, chaired by the MHA Special Secretary (Internal Security) with senior representatives from MeitY, DoT, MEA, DFS, Law, Consumer Affairs, RBI, CBI, NIA, Delhi Police and I4C.
- The panel has met multiple times, including a January 2 virtual discussion with the amicus curiae and a January 6 session with Google, WhatsApp, Telegram and Microsoft on platform responses.
- DoT and RBI have submitted detailed inputs, with further submissions pending from other members as the Centre seeks roughly a month to present a consolidated outcome to the court.
- In its first meeting, the committee decided victims should not bear losses attributable to negligence by banks, telecom providers or other regulated entities, and tasked regulators to examine compensation mechanisms.
- The court earlier gave the CBI a free hand to pursue scammers and probe bankers linked to mule accounts, government figures cite about ₹3,000 crore lost to reported cases, and Tuesday’s hearing was deferred due to paucity of time.