Think tank urges SC to stop trial of WhatsApp Pay

NEW DELHI: Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), a think tank that had filed a public interest litigation before the Supreme Court last year against WhatsApp Pay, has sought an immediate rollback of the messaging app’s pilot project.

In an interim application filed on Monday, CASC has urged the apex court to stop WhatsApp’s trial with 1 million users, direct the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to put on record the permission granted for the trial and disclose all communication between WhatsApp, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and itself.

WhatsApp Pay is designed to run on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) developed by NPCI.