Lok Sabha Question No. 631 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-06
Subject: Prevention of Cyber Crime
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: PARAYAMPARANBIL KUTTAPPAN BIJU

## 631. DR. P. K. BIJU:

Will the Minister of Electronics & Information Technology be pleased to state:-

- (a)  whether the legal, technical and administrative measures taken by the Government to prevent cyber crimes have achieved the desired results;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the number of cases of cyber crimes reported across the country during the last four years, State-wise;
- (c)  whether Government has sought technical aid from some of the developed countries of the world to prevent cyber crimes in the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof alongwith any other steps being taken by the Government in this direction?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI S.S. AHLUWALIA)

(a) and  (b)  :    There  are  adequate  legal  provisions  to  deal  with  prevalent  cyber  crimes.  As  per information provided by National Crimes Record Bureau (NCRB), a total of 9622, 11592 and 12317 cases were registered under total cyber-crimes (involving computer as medium or target) in the country during  2014,  2015  and  2016  respectively.  State/UT-wise  cases  registered  under  cyber-crimes  during 2014-2016 is enclosed as Annexure-I.  Data for year 2017 is still under compilation by NCRB.

- (c):    No, Sir.
- (d):    The  Information  Technology  Act,  2000  has  provisions  to  deal  with  prevalent  cyber  crimes. Government has taken a number of legal, technical and administrative measures to prevent cyber crimes. These inter alia, include:
- (i) Government has established National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) as per the provisions of Section 70A of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 for protection of critical information infrastructure in the country.
- (ii) The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issues alerts and advisories regarding latest  cyber threats and countermeasures on regular basis.  CERT-In has published guidelines for securing IT infrastructure, which is available on its website (www.cert-in.org.in).
- (iii) Government  has  set  up  National  Cyber  Coordination  Centre  (NCCC)  to  generate  necessary situational awareness of existing and potential cyber security threats and enable timely information sharing for proactive, preventive and protective actions by individual entities.
- (iv) Government  has  launched  the  Cyber  Swachhta  Kendra  (Botnet  Cleaning  and  Malware  Analysis Centre). The centre is providing detection of malicious programs and free tools to remove the same for banks as well as common users.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 631

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 06.02.2019

## PREVENTION OF CYBER CRIME

- (v) National  Information  Centre  (NIC),  which  provides  IT  /  E-Governance  related  services  to Government  departments,  protects  the  cyber  resources  from  possible  compromises  through  a layered security approach in the form of practices, procedures and technologies that are put in place. NIC  has  deployed  state-of-the-art  security  solutions  including  firewalls,  intrusion  prevention systems,  anti-virus  solution.  Additionally,  periodic  security  audits  of  resources  are  performed followed by subsequent hardenings. These are complemented by round-the -clock monitoring of security events and remedial measures are carried out for solving the problems subsequently.
- (vi) Government has established security and safety test labs under Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate. Three major labs are functioning at Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru for security assessment of software (including computer programmes).
- (vii) Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched a portal www.cybercrime.gov.in for public to report complaints of child pornography and sexually abusive explicit content.

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| State/UT-wise Cases Registered (CR),Cases ChargeSheeted (CCS),Cases Convicted (CON),Persons Arrested (PAR),Persons Charge Convicted (PCV) under Total Cyber Crimes during 2014-2016   |
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