{"id":187724,"date":"2018-08-27T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/08\/27\/sc-notice-to-centre-whatsapp-against-payments-service\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:55:15","slug":"sc-notice-to-centre-whatsapp-against-payments-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/sc-notice-to-centre-whatsapp-against-payments-service\/","title":{"rendered":"SC notice to Centre, WhatsApp against payments service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2018_8$large_wats.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and messaging service provider WhatsApp after a plea sought direction to restrain the app from proceeding with its payments systems unless it fully complies with RBI&rsquo;s provisions.<\/p>\n<div>A bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra sought response from WhatsApp, Law and Justice Ministry, Finance Ministry and Information Technology Ministry within four weeks.<\/div>\n<div>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).<\/div>\n<div>The plea said that while companies like Facebook and Google have appointed Grievance Officers for users in India, WhatsApp had not.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>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.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div>(IANS)<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The advocate said WhatsApp was being allowed to continue with its payments and other services without any checks.<\/div>\n<div>WhatsApp has over 200 million users in India and almost one million people are &ldquo;testing&rdquo; WhatsApp&rsquo;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.<\/div>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div>(IANS)<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC notice to Centre, WhatsApp against payments service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}