The valedictory for a three-day program ‘Awareness on Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws’ conducted for 30 directly recruited junior civil judges at MCR HRD was held on Wednesday.
DGP, Anjani Kumar who attended the valedictory stated that cybercrime accounts for 50% of all crime reported on any given day. “A cyber-criminal sits in a far off country and using a proxy server commits a crime and its need lot of money to detect the crime and bring the criminal to justice,” he said.
The Telangana CID is the nodal agency for the program organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Additional Director General (CID) Telangana, Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, stated that the main goal of the training was to impart knowledge on cybercrime, cyber laws, social media related crimes and skills to handle them. “The officers were trained on various topics related to cybercrime prevention and investigation, and cyber laws,” he said.
Cybercrime on the rise
The city of Hyderabad, which is also an IT hub, has now emerged as a major center for cybercrime. According to National Crime Record Bureau NCRB data, Telangana contributed about 10% to the country’s total cyber fraud in 2020.
In Telangana, at a rate of 13.4 cases per lakh population, the number of cybercrimes shot up from 2,691 cases in 2019 to 5,024 in 2020, according to the NCRB’s Crime in India-2020 report.
Telangana experienced a twofold increase in cybercrime in 2021. During the year, 8,828 cases of cybercrime were reported. In these cases, 5,833 were major offenses, and 1,191 were cases of online fraud and impersonation.
The Hyderabad Police alone reported 5,646 cybercrimes in 2020, compared to 1,379 in 2019. According to Hyderabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, every fifth First Information Report (FIR) in Hyderabad pertains to cybercrime. Around 100 FIRs are filed each day in the city, and about 20 percent of them are related to cyber crimes such as social media fraud, financial fraud, hacking and sexual harassment.
About 45 percent of all cybercrime cases involve UPI scams, followed by 15 percent by OTP fraud, phone customer service, investment fraud, and other forms of cybercrime.
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