{"id":3157,"date":"2018-08-28T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2018-08-28T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:46:43","slug":"supreme-court-notice-to-indian-govt-whatsapp-against-payments-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-notice-to-indian-govt-whatsapp-against-payments-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court notice to Indian govt, WhatsApp against payments service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; indiatimes.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"section1\">\n<div class=\"Normal\">The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Monday issued notice to Indian government and messaging service provider\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0after a plea sought direction to restrain the app from proceeding with its payments systems unless it fully complies with\u00a0RBI&#8217;s provisions.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra sought response from WhatsApp, Law and Justice Ministry,\u00a0Finance Ministry\u00a0and Information Technology Ministry within four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Virag Gupta, appearing for the petitioner Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change, contended that the messaging platform does not comply with provision of mandating a Grievance Officer and other laws of India including Know Your Customer (KYC) norms laid down by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).<\/p>\n<p>The plea said that while companies like\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and Google have appointed Grievance Officers for users in India, WhatsApp had not.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make WhatsApp accountable, it must be directed to comply with Indian laws and appoint a Grievance Officer who shall address grievances of the consumers as well as co-ordinate with investigating agencies, it added.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is a foreign company with no office or servers in India and to run payments service here it is obligated to have its office and payments in India, said the plea.<\/p>\n<p>The advocate said WhatsApp was being allowed to continue with its payments and other services without any checks.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has over 200 million users in India and almost one million people are &#8220;testing&#8221; WhatsApp&#8217;s payments service in India, which is the largest base for the Facebook-owned company that has over 1.5 billion users globally, according to the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Every user has a number on WhatsApp but the messaging platform does not have a number through which the users can contact the company for grievance redressal, it added.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"prime-article-detail-65563341\" class=\"featured_section alreadytriggered\" data-type=\"prime-distribution\" data-ftd-type=\"prime-article-detail\">\n<div class=\"prime-story-box clearfix prime-story\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-notice-to-indian-govt-whatsapp-against-payments-service\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; indiatimes.com The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Monday issued notice to Indian government and messaging service provider\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0after a plea sought direction to restrain the app from proceeding with its payments systems unless it fully complies with\u00a0RBI&#8217;s provisions. 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