INCREASE IN CYBER CRIMES
INCREASE IN CYBER CRIMES
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) compiles and publishes the statistical data on crimes in its publication “Crime in India”. The latest published report is for the year 2022. As per the data published by the NCRB, State/UT-wise details of cases registered under cyber crimes (involving communication devices as medium/target) for last three years are at the Annexure.
The Central Government supplements the initiatives of the States/UTs through advisories and financial assistance under various schemes for capacity building of their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). To strengthen the mechanism to deal with cyber crimes in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, the Central Government has taken steps which, inter-alia, include the following:
ANNEXURE
State/UT-wise details of cases registered under cyber crimes (involving communication devices as medium/target) for last three years
Sl. no
State/UT
2020
2021
2022
1
Andhra Pradesh
1899
1875
2341
2
Arunachal Pradesh
30
47
14
3
Assam
3530
4846
1733
4
Bihar
1512
1413
1621
5
Chhattisgarh
297
352
439
6
Goa
40
36
90
7
Gujarat
1283
1536
1417
8
Haryana
656
622
681
9
Himachal Pradesh
98
70
77
10
Jharkhand
1204
953
967
11
Karnataka
10741
8136
12556
12
Kerala
426
626
773
13
Madhya Pradesh
699
589
826
14
Maharashtra
5496
5562
8249
15
Manipur
79
67
18
16
Meghalaya
142
107
75
17
Mizoram
13
30
1
18
Nagaland #
8
8
4
19
Odisha
1931
2037
1983
20
Punjab
378
551
697
21
Rajasthan
1354
1504
1833
22
Sikkim
0
0
26
23
Tamil Nadu
782
1076
2082
24
Telangana
5024
10303
15297
25
Tripura
34
24
30
26
Uttar Pradesh
11097
8829
10117
27
Uttarakhand
243
718
559
28
West Bengal
712
513
401
TOTAL STATE(S)
49708
52430
64907
29
A&N Islands
5
8
28
30
Chandigarh
17
15
27
31
D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu
3
5
5
32
Delhi
168
356
685
33
Jammu & Kashmir
120
154
173
34
Ladakh
1
5
3
35
Lakshadweep
3
1
1
36
Puducherry
10
0
64
TOTAL UT(S)
327
544
986
TOTAL (ALL INDIA)
50035
52974
65893
Source: Crime in India published by NCRB.
# Clarifications are pending from Nagaland for the year 2022
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs has set up the ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ (I4C) to deal with all types of cyber crime in the country, in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.
- Seven Joint Cyber Coordination Teams (JCCTs) have been constituted for Mewat, Jamtara, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Vishakhapatnam, and Guwahati under I4C covering the whole country based upon cyber crime hotspots/ areas having multi jurisdictional issues by on boarding States/UTs to enhance the coordination framework among the Law Enforcement Agencies of the States/UTs. Seven workshops were organized for JCCTs at Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Vishakhapatnam, Lucknow, Ranchi and Chandigarh in 2023.
- National Cyber Forensic Laboratory (Investigation) has been established, as a part of the I4C, at New Delhi to provide early stage cyber forensic assistance to Investigating Officers (IOs) of State/UT Police. So far, National Cyber Forensics Laboratory (Investigation) have provided its services to State LEAs in around 9,000 cyber forensics like mobile forensics, memory forensics, Call Data Record (CDR) Analysis, etc. to help them in investigation of cases pertaining to cyber crimes.
- The ‘National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal’ (https://cybercrime.gov.in) has been launched, as a part of the I4C, to enable public to report incidents pertaining to all types of cyber crimes, with special focus on cyber crimes against women and children. Cyber crime incidents reported on this portal, their conversion into FIRs and subsequent action thereon are handled by the State/UT Law Enforcement Agencies concerned as per the provisions of the law.