Lok Sabha Question No. 3068 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-22
Subject: Cyber Crimes against Women and Children
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Anto  Antony, Sumalatha Ambareesh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3068

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 22 ND   MARCH, 2022/ CHAITRA 1, 1944 (SAKA)

CYBER CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN

3068.

SHRI ANTO ANTONY:

SHRIMATI SUMALATHA AMBAREESH:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of reported cyber-crimes committed against women and children during the pandemic, State-wise and year-wise since 2020;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  is  taking  any  special  measures  for  prevention  of cyber-crimes against women and children, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government intends to train law enforcement agencies to handle digital  forensics  and  investigate  cyber-crimes  specifically  against  women  and children, if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether the Government has set up any committee or agency to tackle with the rising cyber-crimes against children, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (e) whether the Government is setting up online central reporting mechanism for lodging complaints of cyber-crimes and if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI AJAY KUMAR MISHRA)

(a)  to  (e):  The  National  Crime  Records  Bureau  (NCRB)  compiles  and  publishes statistical data on crimes in its publication 'Crime in India'. The latest  published  report  is  for the  year 2020.  As per the data published by the  NCRB, States/UTs-wise, details of cyber crimes against women and children

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 3068 FOR 22.03.2022

for the year 2020 are at Annexures-I and II, respectively.

'Police' and 'Public Order' are State subjects, as per the Seventh Schedule to  the  Constitution  of  India.  States/UTs  are  primarily  responsible  for  the prevention,  detection,  investigation  and  prosecution  of  crimes,  through  their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). The LEAs take legal action as per provisions of  law  against  the  offenders.  The  Central  Government  has  taken  measures  to supplement the efforts of States/UTs to deal with cyber crimes against women and children which, inter-alia, include the following:

- (i) Ministry of Home Affairs has set up the 'Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)' to provide ecosystem for tackling all types of cyber crime in the country, in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.
- (ii) The Ministry of Home Affairs has provided financial assistance under the Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) Scheme, to States/UTs for their capacity building such as setting up of cyber forensiccum-training laboratories, hiring of junior cyber consultants and training of LEAs'  personnel,  public  prosecutors  and  judicial  officers.  So  far,  cyber forensic-cum-training laboratories have been commissioned in 28 States/UTs.
- (iii) An MoU has been signed between the NCRB, India and National Center for

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 3068 FOR 22.03.2022

Missing  and  Exploited  Children  (NCMEC),  USA  regarding  receiving  of Tipline  report  on  online  child  pornography  and  child  sexual  exploitation contents from NCMEC. The Tiplines, as received from NCMEC, are shared with  States/UTs  online  through  National  Cybercrime  Reporting  Portal  for taking further action.

- (iv) Training  curriculum  has  been  prepared  for  Law  Enforcement  Agencies personnel, prosecutors and judicial officers for better handling of investigation and prosecution. States/UTs have been mandated to organize training  programmes.  So  far,  more  than  19,900  LEA  personnel,  judicial officers  and  prosecutors  have  been  provided  training  on  cyber  crime awareness, investigation, forensics etc.
- (v) The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform under the I4C called 'CyTrain' portal has been developed. CyTrain portal helps in the capacity building  of  Police  Officers/Judicial  Officers  through  online  course  on critical  aspects  of  cyber  crime  investigation,  forensics,  prosecution  etc. along  with  certification.  So  far,  more  than  12,000  Police  Officers  from States/UTs are registered and more than 3000 Certificates issued through the portal.
- (vi)   To  enhance  awareness  about  Cyber  Crimes,  an  easy  to  understand 'Handbook for  Adolescents/Students' booklet for the age group of 13 years

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or  more  has  been  released.  This  booklet  has  been  circulated  to  the Secretaries of all Ministries/Departments, Chief Secretaries of State Governments/UTs and DGsP, for its dissemination to their respective areas. This booklet has also been made available at https://mha.gov.in/documents/downloads and www.cybercrime.gov.in.

- (vii)   A Twitter handle namely '@Cyberdost' has been launched to spread cyber awareness, on which cyber security tips are being posted regularly.
- (viii)  Section 67B  of the Information Technology  (IT) Act, 2000  provides stringent  punishment  for  publishing,  browsing  or  transmitting  of  material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form. Sections 66E,  67,  and  67A  of  the  Act  provide  for  the  punishment  and  fine  for violation of bodily privacy and publishing or transmitting of obscene/sexually-explicit material in electronic form.
- (ix) The  Information  Technology  (Intermediary  Guidelines  and  Digital  Media Ethics  Code)  Rules,  2021  notified  under  the  IT  Act,  specify  that  the intermediaries  shall  inform  the  users  of  computer  resource  not  to  host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information that is, inter alia,  obscene,  pornographic, paedophilic, harms minor  in any way; violates any law for the time being in force; etc. Also rule 3(2)(b) of these  Rules  provides  that  on  a  complaint  by an individual, intermediary

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shall, within 24 hours, remove any content which prima facie exposes the private  area  of  such  individual,  shows  such  individual  in  full  or  partial nudity or shows or depicts such individual in any sexual act or conduct, or is in the nature of impersonation in an electronic form, including artificially morphed images of such individual.

- (x) The Government periodically blocks the websites containing child sexual abuse  material  (CSAM)  based  on  INTERPOL's  'worst  of  list'  received through the national nodal agency for Interpol in India.
- (xi).   The  concerned  Internet  Service  Providers  (ISPs)  have  been  mandated  to work out a suitable arrangement for receiving Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), UK list of CSAM websites / webpages on a dynamic basis and block access to child pornography webpages / websites.
- (xii)  Ministry of Home  Affairs operationalized the National Cyber Crime Reporting  Portal  to  provide  a  centralized  mechanism  to  the  citizens  for online reporting of all types of cyber crime incidents, with a special focus on  cyber  crimes  against  women  and  children.  Incidents  reported  on  this portal  are  automatically  routed  to  the  State/UT  law  enforcement  agency concerned for taking further steps as per the provisions of the law. A tollfree helpline number '1930' has been operationalized to get assistance in lodging online cyber complaints.

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State/UT-wise Cases Registered(CR), Cases Chargesheeted(CCS), Cases Convicted(CON), Persons Arrested(PAR), Persons Chargesheeted(PCS) and Persons Convicted(PCV) under Cyber Crimes against Women during 2020

|    | State/UT                   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   |
|----|----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| SL |                            | CR     | CCS    | CON    | PAR    | PCS    | PCV    |
| 1  | Andhra Pradesh             | 375    | 78     | 0      | 134    | 105    | 0      |
| 2  | Arunachal Pradesh          | 1      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 3  | Assam                      | 1071   | 106    | 0      | 339    | 108    | 0      |
| 4  | Bihar                      | 47     | 14     | 0      | 35     | 24     | 0      |
| 5  | Chhattisgarh               | 117    | 74     | 3      | 92     | 88     | 3      |
| 6  | Goa                        | 19     | 2      | 0      | 4      | 2      | 0      |
| 7  | Gujarat                    | 277    | 169    | 0      | 245    | 244    | 0      |
| 8  | Haryana                    | 222    | 104    | 0      | 133    | 132    | 0      |
| 9  | Himachal Pradesh           | 52     | 19     | 0      | 27     | 20     | 0      |
| 10 | Jharkhand                  | 20     | 15     | 6      | 21     | 19     | 7      |
| 11 | Karnataka                  | 2859   | 589    | 0      | 79     | 595    | 0      |
| 12 | Kerala                     | 246    | 85     | 0      | 163    | 93     | 0      |
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh             | 274    | 226    | 5      | 287    | 286    | 5      |
| 14 | Maharashtra                | 1632   | 521    | 0      | 777    | 608    | 0      |
| 15 | Manipur                    | 26     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 16 | Meghalaya                  | 39     | 0      | 0      | 2      | 0      | 0      |
| 17 | Mizoram                    | 1      | 1      | 1      | 1      | 1      | 1      |
| 18 | Nagaland                   | 2      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 0      | 0      |
| 19 | Odisha                     | 560    | 220    | 0      | 288    | 310    | 0      |
| 20 | Punjab                     | 110    | 35     | 0      | 89     | 52     | 0      |
| 21 | Rajasthan                  | 238    | 110    | 5      | 159    | 152    | 7      |
| 22 | Sikkim                     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 23 | Tamil Nadu                 | 306    | 52     | 2      | 209    | 132    | 4      |
| 24 | Telangana                  | 649    | 277    | 16     | 338    | 329    | 16     |
| 25 | Tripura                    | 3      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 0      | 0      |
| 26 | Uttar Pradesh              | 749    | 469    | 36     | 541    | 648    | 51     |
| 27 | Uttarakhand                | 72     | 51     | 0      | 60     | 58     | 0      |
| 28 | West Bengal                | 344    | 76     | 0      | 71     | 84     | 0      |
|    | TOTAL STATE(S)             | 10311  | 3293   | 74     | 4096   | 4090   | 94     |
| 29 | A&N Islands                | 3      | 4      | 0      | 3      | 4      | 0      |
| 30 | Chandigarh                 | 10     | 1      | 0      | 2      | 1      | 0      |
| 31 | D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu | 3      | 1      | 0      | 1      | 1      | 0      |
| 32 | Delhi                      | 51     | 14     | 0      | 31     | 14     | 0      |
| 33 | Jammu & Kashmir            | 25     | 7      | 0      | 8      | 8      | 0      |
| 34 | Ladakh                     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 35 | Lakshadweep                | 2      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 0      | 0      |
| 36 | Puducherry                 | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
|    | TOTAL UT(S)                | 94     | 27     | 0      | 46     | 28     | 0      |
|    | TOTAL (ALL INDIA)          | 10405  | 3320   | 74     | 4142   | 4118   | 94     |

Source : Crime in India

State/UT-wise Cases Registered(CR), Cases Chargesheeted(CCS), Cases Convicted(CON), Persons Arrested(PAR), Persons Chargesheeted(PCS) and Persons Convicted(PCV) under Cyber Crimes against Children during 2020

|                   | State/UT                   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   | 2020   |
|-------------------|----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| SL                |                            | CR     | CCS    | CON    | PAR    | PCS    | PCV    |
| 1                 | Andhra Pradesh             | 52     | 5      | 0      | 22     | 6      | 0      |
| 2                 | Arunachal Pradesh          | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 3                 | Assam                      | 45     | 6      | 0      | 6      | 10     | 0      |
| 4                 | Bihar                      | 1      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 5                 | Chhattisgarh               | 21     | 17     | 1      | 25     | 25     | 1      |
| 6                 | Goa                        | 3      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 0      | 0      |
| 7                 | Gujarat                    | 32     | 32     | 0      | 63     | 63     | 0      |
| 8                 | Haryana                    | 33     | 19     | 0      | 24     | 23     | 0      |
| 9                 | Himachal Pradesh           | 19     | 5      | 0      | 9      | 6      | 0      |
| 10                | Jharkhand                  | 4      | 3      | 0      | 2      | 3      | 0      |
| 11                | Karnataka                  | 144    | 12     | 0      | 34     | 12     | 0      |
| 12                | Kerala                     | 126    | 35     | 0      | 121    | 36     | 0      |
| 13                | Madhya Pradesh             | 39     | 33     | 0      | 55     | 58     | 0      |
| 14                | Maharashtra                | 207    | 65     | 0      | 101    | 78     | 0      |
| 15                | Manipur                    | 3      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 16                | Meghalaya                  | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 17                | Mizoram                    | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 18                | Nagaland                   | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 19                | Odisha                     | 71     | 47     | 0      | 84     | 84     | 0      |
| 20                | Punjab                     | 10     | 9      | 0      | 9      | 9      | 0      |
| 21                | Rajasthan                  | 24     | 16     | 0      | 22     | 22     | 0      |
| 22                | Sikkim                     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 23                | Tamil Nadu                 | 35     | 5      | 0      | 15     | 5      | 0      |
| 24                | Telangana                  | 9      | 0      | 0      | 8      | 0      | 0      |
| 25                | Tripura                    | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 26                | Uttar Pradesh              | 197    | 121    | 0      | 50     | 181    | 0      |
| 27                | Uttarakhand                | 11     | 4      | 0      | 4      | 4      | 0      |
| 28                | West Bengal                | 6      | 1      | 0      | 3      | 1      | 0      |
|                   | TOTAL STATE(S)             | 1092   | 435    | 1      | 658    | 626    | 1      |
| 29                | A&N Islands                | 1      | 2      | 0      | 0      | 2      | 0      |
| 30                | Chandigarh                 | 3      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 31                | D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 32                | Delhi                      | 5      | 2      | 0      | 2      | 2      | 0      |
| 33                | Jammu & Kashmir            | 1      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 34                | Ladakh                     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 35                | Lakshadweep                | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| 36                | Puducherry                 | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
|                   | TOTAL UT(S)                | 10     | 4      | 0      | 2      | 4      | 0      |
| TOTAL (ALL INDIA) | TOTAL (ALL INDIA)          | 1102   | 439    | 1      | 660    | 630    | 1      |

Source : Crime in India

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