Lok Sabha Question No. 1432 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-12
Subject: Cyber Crime Cases
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: D. M. Kathir Anand

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1432

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 12 TH  DECEMBER, 2023/ AGRAHAYANA 21, 1945 (SAKA)

CYBER CRIME CASES

1432. SHRI D.M. KATHIR ANAND:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  there  is  a  rise  in  the  total  number  of  cyber  crime  cases reported during the last three years;

(b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;

(c) whether the Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended to the Ministry to coordinate with State Governments to set up cyber crime cells in every district and if so, the details thereof; and

(d)  the  total  number  of  cyber  crime  cells  and  cyber  police  stations established in the country, State-wise?

ANSWER

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

(a)  &  (b)  :  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)  during  the  period from           2020           to          2022         are       at       the       Annexure-I.

(c) & (d): Yes Sir, the Standing Committee  on Home  Affairs has recommended to coordinate with State Governments to set up cyber crime cells in every district.  'Police' and 'Public Order' are State subjects as per the  Seventh Schedule of the Constitution  of India. The  Ministry of Home Affairs has issued advisory to all States/UTs in the matter. The States/UTs set up the police stations as per requirement.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has also 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.

The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) compiles and publishes the statistical  data  on  cyber  cells  and  cyber  crime  police stations  in  its  publication  'Data  on  Police  Organizations'.  The  latest published  report  is  for  the  year  2022.  As  per  the  data  published  by  the BPR&D, State/UT-wise detail of the cyber cells and cyber police stations, as on 01.01.2022 is at Annexure-II.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## LSQ.NO. 1432 FOR 12.12.2023

## STATE/UT-WISE CASES REGISTEREDUNDER CYBER CRIMES DURING 2020-2022

| SL                | 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

ANNEXURE-II LSQ.NO. 1432 FOR 12.12.2023

STATE/UT -WISE DETAILS OF CYBER CELL AND CYBER CRIME POLICE STATIONS

| Sl.No.   | STATES/UTs                   | Number of Cyber Cell   |   Number of Cyber Crime Police Station |
|----------|------------------------------|------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh               | 3                      |                                      3 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh            | 0                      |                                      1 |
| 3        | Assam                        | 3                      |                                      0 |
| 4        | Bihar                        | 48                     |                                      1 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh                 | 29                     |                                      1 |
| 6        | Goa                          | 1                      |                                      1 |
| 7        | Gujarat                      | 5                      |                                     24 |
| 8        | Haryana                      | 40                     |                                      8 |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh             | 1                      |                                      1 |
| 10       | Jharkhand                    | 15                     |                                      7 |
| 11       | Karnataka                    | 1                      |                                      8 |
| 12       | Kerala                       | 19                     |                                     19 |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh               | 11                     |                                      1 |
| 14       | Maharashtra                  | 49                     |                                     46 |
| 15       | Manipur                      | 10                     |                                      1 |
| 16       | Meghalaya                    | 11                     |                                      1 |
| 17       | Mizoram                      | 0                      |                                      1 |
| 18       | Nagaland                     | 12                     |                                      1 |
| 19       | Odisha                       | 34                     |                                     15 |
| 20       | Punjab                       | 28                     |                                      2 |
| 21       | Rajasthan                    | 15                     |                                      2 |
| 22       | Sikkim                       | 1                      |                                      0 |
| 23       | Tamil Nadu                   | 47                     |                                     46 |
| 24       | Telangana                    | 24                     |                                      3 |
| 25       | Tripura                      | 1                      |                                      0 |
| 26       | Uttar Pradesh                | @                      |                                     18 |
| 27       | Uttarakhand                  | 13                     |                                      2 |
| 28       | West Bengal                  | 39                     |                                     31 |
| 29       | A & N Islands                | 1                      |                                      0 |
| 30       | Chandigarh                   | 1                      |                                      0 |
| 31       | D & N Haveli and Daman & Diu | 3                      |                                      0 |
| 32       | Delhi                        | 0                      |                                     15 |
| 33       | Jammu and Kashmir            | 0                      |                                      2 |
| 34       | Ladakh                       | 2                      |                                      0 |
| 35       | Lakshadweep                  | 1                      |                                      0 |
| 36       | Puducherry                   | 1                      |                                      1 |
|          | TOTAL                        | 469                    |                                    262 |

Source: BPR&D publication 'Data on Police Organizations', 2022 @ 79 (75 Cyber Cells in each district and 04 in commissionerate system) *****