THE STRANGER ON THE VIDEO CALL: TRUTH-DEFAULT, TRANSPARENCY AND INDIA’S DIGITAL ARREST SCAMS
On 28 August 2024, the eighty-two-year-old chairman of one of India’s largest textile groups answered a telephone call that kept him under fake police custody, on camera, for two days and cost him seven crore rupees. This article reads India’s digital arrest epidemic through two connected bodies of work: Timothy Levine...