Lok Sabha Question No. 2944 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-18
Subject: Cybercrime against Women
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Ms Sayani Ghosh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2944

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 18 TH  MARCH, 2025/ PHALGUNA 27, 1946 (SAKA)

CYBERCRIME AGAINST WOMEN

2944.     MS SAYANI GHOSH:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  total  number of cybercrime complaints related to crimes against women registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal in the last five years, year-wise;
- (b)  the  breakup  of  these  complaints,  including  cyberstalking,  online harassment, cyber blackmailing, identity  theft,  Non-Consensual Intimate Content (NCIC), deepfake misuse, and other offences, category-wise;
- (c) the number of cases resolved and pending, and the average time taken for resolution of complaints related to women, State-wise; and
- (d)  whether  the  Government  is  taking  any  steps  to  strengthen  digital safety  measures  for  women,  including  stricter  enforcement,  awareness campaigns and AI-based monitoring, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI BANDI SANJAY KUMAR)

(a) to (d): 'Police'  and  'Public  Order'  are  State  subjects  as  per  the Seventh  Schedule  of  the  Constitution  of  India.  The  States/UTs  are primarily  responsible  for  the  prevention,  detection,  investigation  and prosecution of crimes including cyber crime against women through their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). The Central Government supplements

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 2944 FOR 18.03.2025

the initiatives of the States/UTs through advisories and financial assistance under various schemes for capacity building of their LEAs.

To strengthen the mechanism to deal with cyber crimes, including cyber crimes against women in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, the  Central  Government  has  taken  steps  which,  inter-alia,  include  the following:

- i. The Ministry of Home Affairs has provided financial assistance under the  'Cyber  Crime  Prevention  against  Women  and  Children  (CCPWC)' Scheme, to the States/UTs for their capacity building such as setting up  of  cyber  forensic-cum-training  laboratories,  hiring  of  junior  cyber consultants  and  training  of  LEAs'  personnel,  public  prosecutors  and judicial officers.
- ii. Cyber Forensic-cum-Training Laboratories have been commissioned in 33  States/UTs.  As  per  available  information,  Cyber  Forensic-cumTraining  Laboratory  has  not  been  established  in  Tamil  Nadu  under CCPWC scheme.
- iii. Training  curriculum  has  been  prepared  for  LEA  personnel,  Public Prosecutors  and  Judicial  officers  for  better  handling  of  investigation and prosecution. States/UTs have been requested to organize training programmes.  More than 24,600 LEA personnel, Public Prosecutors and

Judicial officers have been provided training on cyber crime awareness, investigation, forensics etc. under CCPWC Scheme.

- iv. The  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  has  set  up  the  'Indian  Cyber  Crime Coordination Centre' (I4C) as an attached office to deal with all types of  cyber  crimes  in  the  country,  in  a  coordinated  and  comprehensive manner.
- v. The 'National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal' (NCRP) (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. The total number of cybercrime incidents related to crimes against women reported on the NCRP in the last five years are as under:

| Category                                   | Sub-Category                                               |   2020 |   2021 |   2022 |   2023 |   2024 |
|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| CSAM/CSEM/RG R (Anonymous + Report &Track) | Child Pornography (CP)- Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) |   2019 |   2109 |   3062 |   2957 |   6079 |
| CSAM/CSEM/RG R (Anonymous + Report &Track) | Rape/Gang Rape (RGR)- Sexually Abusive Content             |   2184 |  27945 |  30574 |  12129 |   4273 |
| CSAM/CSEM/RG R (Anonymous + Report &Track) | Sexually Obscene material                                  |   9606 |  12251 |  16341 |  14322 |  21990 |
| CSAM/CSEM/RG R (Anonymous + Report &Track) | Sexually Explicit Act                                      |   8379 |   9743 |  12247 |  10658 |  16133 |
| TOTAL                                      | TOTAL                                                      |  22188 |  52048 |  62224 |  40066 |  48475 |

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Incidents reported in the categories like Cyberstalking, Identity Theft etc. in  another category of 'Online and Social Media related Crime' on NCRP for the last five years are as under:

| Category                              | Sub-Category                         |   2020 |   2021 |   2022 |   2023 |   2024 |
|---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | E-Mail Phishing                      |    897 |    798 |   1364 |   1272 |   2009 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Cheating by Impersonation            |   9808 |  12617 |  20041 |  18135 |  19989 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Fake/Impersonating Profile           |  12310 |  15843 |  23626 |  30234 |  39846 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Profile Hacking/ Identity Theft      |  10419 |  10650 |  26288 |  33724 |  38295 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Provocative Speech for unlawful acts |   5237 |   2320 |   4092 |   3597 |   5250 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Impersonating Email                  |    225 |    208 |    285 |    304 |    586 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Intimidating Email                   |    245 |    149 |    227 |    228 |    571 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Online Job Fraud                     |   4973 |   7504 |  10292 |  13764 |  10461 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Online Matrimonial Fraud             |    528 |    623 |   1149 |    926 |    854 |
| Online and Social Media Related Crime | Cyber Bullying / Stalking / Sexting  |  11641 |  21589 |  44270 |  39080 |  39077 |
| TOTAL                                 | TOTAL                                |  56283 |  72301 | 131634 | 141264 | 156938 |

- vi. In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 79 of the Information Technology Act 2000, Central Government being the appropriate government  designated the Indian Cyber  Crime  Coordination  Centre  (I4C),  to  be  the  agency  of  the Ministry of Home Affairs to perform the functions under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 79 of Information Technology Act, 2000 and to  notify  the  instances  of  information,  data  or  communication  link residing  in  or  connected  to  a  computer  resource  controlled  by  the intermediary being used to commit the unlawful act on 13.03.2024.

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- vii. National  Cyber  Forensic  Laboratory  (Evidence)  was  inaugurated  on 14.05.2022 at Hyderabad. Establishment of this laboratory provides the necessary  forensic  support  in  cases  of  evidence  related  to  cyber crime,  preserving  the  evidence  and  its  analysis  in  line  with  the provisions of IT Act and Evidence Act; and reduced turnaround time by 50%.
- viii. The state of the art '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) has provided its services to State/UT LEAs in around 11,835 cases pertaining to cyber crimes.
- ix. The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform, namely 'CyTrain' portal  has  been  developed  under  I4C,  for  capacity  building  of  police officers/judicial  officers  through  online  course  on  critical  aspects  of cyber  crime  investigation, forensics,  prosecution  etc.  More  than 1,02,321 Police Officers from States/UTs are registered and more than 79,909 Certificates issued through the portal.
- x. A State of the Art Centre, Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre (CFMC) has been  established at I4C where  representatives  of major banks, Financial Intermediaries, Payment Aggregators, Telecom Service Providers,  IT  Intermediaries  and  representatives  of  States/UTs Law

Enforcement  Agency  are  working  together  for  immediate  action  and seamless cooperation to tackle cybercrime.

- xi. 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.
- xii. Samanvaya  Platform  has  been  made  operational  to  serve  as  an Management Information System(MIS) platform, data repository and a coordination  platform  for  LEAs  for  cybercrime  data  sharing  and analytics. It provides analytics based interstate linkages of crimes and criminals,  involved  in  cybercrime  complaints  in  various  States/UTs. The module 'Pratibimb' maps  locations of criminals and crime infrastructure on a map to give visibility to jurisdictional officers. The module also facilitates seeking and receiving of techno-legal assistance by Law Enforcement  Agencies from I4C and other SMEs. It has lead to arrest of 6,046 accused, 17,185 linkages and 36,296 Cyber Investigation assistance request.

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- xiii. 'Sahyog' Portal has been launched to expedite the process of sending notices  to  IT  intermediaries  by  the  Appropriate  Government  or  its agency under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 79 of the IT Act, 2000 to facilitate the removal or disabling of access to any information,  data  or  communication  link  being  used  to  commit  an unlawful act.
- xiv. To  spread  awareness  on  cyber  crime,  the  Central  Government  has taken  steps  which,  inter-alia,  include;  dissemination  of  messages through  SMS,  I4C  social  media  account  i.e.  X  (formerly  Twitter) (@CyberDost), Facebook(CyberDostI4C), Instagram (cyberDostI4C), Telegram(cyberdosti4c), Radio campaign, caller tune, engaged MyGov for publicity in multiple mediums, organizing Cyber Safety and Security Awareness  weeks  in association with States/UTs, publishing of Handbook  for  Adolescents/Students,  newspaper  advertisement  on digital  arrest  scam,  announcement  in  Delhi  metros  on  digital  arrest and  other  modus  operandi  of  cyber  criminals,  use  of  social  media influencers to create special posts on digital arrest, digital displays on railway stations and airports across, etc.

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