New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of the growing menace of "digital arrest" scams - a sophisticated form of cyber fraud in which criminals impersonate law enforcement officers, intelligence officials, or even judges, to extort money from victims, particularly senior citizens, using forged court orders and fake proceedings. The court's intervention came after a 73-year-old woman from Ambala, Haryana, wrote a detailed letter to the Supreme Court, describing how she and her husband were virtually "detained" by scammers who produced fake Supreme Court orders and forced them to transfer over Rs.1 crore. The fraudsters, she said, used forged documents purporting to bear the signature of former Chief Just...