NHRC, India organises an Open House Discussion on ‘Safeguarding human rights against digital arrest scams’ in hybrid mode

• NHRC, India convened an Open House Discussion in hybrid mode on "Safeguarding human rights against digital arrest scams", chaired by Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian.
• "Digital arrest" is a cyber-enabled fraud in which scammers impersonate law-enforcement/agency officials over video call to coerce victims into prolonged confinement at home and extort money — flagged by the PM in Mann Ki Baat and acted on by MHA's Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).
• Relevance for aspirants: intersection of Article 21 (life & personal liberty), Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, BNS/BNSS 2023, and internal-security/cyber-governance architecture.