Lok Sabha Question No. 131 (STARRED), answered on 2023-12-12
Subject: Rise in Cyber Crime Cases
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Abdul Khaleque

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *131

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

RISE IN CYBER CRIME CASES

*131. SHRI ABDUL KHALEQUE:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  the  number  of  cyber  crime cases  registered  is  on  the  rise  across  the  country  during  the  last  three years;

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

(c) the details regarding the amount of money siphoned off by scammers during the said period and the number of people who have been dumped in the process;

(d)  the  details  of  the  percentage  of  recovery  made  from  the  scammers during the said period; and

(e)  the  number  of  scammers  who  have  been  convicted  during  the  said period?

ANSWER

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

(a) to (e):   A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (e) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*131 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.12.2023.

(a) to (e):  '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  through  their  Law  Enforcement  Agencies. The  Central  Government  supplements  the  initiatives  of  the  States/UTs through  advisories  and  financial  assistance  under  various  schemes  for their capacity building of their LEAs.

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, persons  arrested, persons charge-sheeted and persons convicted under cyber crimes (involving  communication  devices  as  medium/target)  during  the  period from 2020 to 2022 are at the Annexure.

Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  has  operationalized  National  Cyber  Crime Reporting Portal on 30 th August 2019 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, their conversion into FIRs and subsequent action thereon are handled by the State/UT Law Enforcement Agency concerned as per the provisions of the law.

Citizen  Financial  Cyber  Frauds  Reporting  and  Management  System has been developed as a part of 'National Cybercrime Reporting Portal'. This  module  provides  an  integrated  platform,  where  all  stakeholders including  Law Enforcement Agencies of States/UTs, all major Banks and financial intermediaries, payment  wallets, crypto exchanges  and ecommerce companies work in tandem to ensure that quick, decisive, and system-based effective action is taken to prevent the flow of money from victim's  account  to  cyber  fraudster's  account. The  money  thus seized  is then  restored  to  the  victim  following  due  legal  process.  The  platform enables identification of the various financial channels being misused by the fraudsters for routing the fraud proceeds. A toll-free Helpline number '1930' has been operationalized to get assistance in lodging online cyber incidents. Since inception of Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management  System,  more  than  16.72  lakh  incidents  for  financial  fraud have been registered till December 04, 2023. So far, financial amount of more than Rs. 1000 Crore have been saved in more than 4 lakh incidents.

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## State/UT-wise Cases Registered (CR), Cases Charge sheeted (CCS), Cases Convicted (CON), Persons Arrested (PAR), Persons Charge sheeted (PCS), Persons Convicted (PCV) under Cyber Crimes during 2020-2022

| SL       | State/UT                   | 2020   | 2020       | 2020      | 2020      | 2021      | 2021      | 2021      | 2021   | 2021    | 2021    | 2022   | 2022   | 2022          | 2022      | 2022   | 2022    |
|----------|----------------------------|--------|------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|---------|--------|--------|---------------|-----------|--------|---------|
| SL       | State/UT                   | CR     | CCS        | CON       | PAR PCS   | PCV       | CR        | CCS       | CON    | PAR     | PCS PCV |        | CR CCS | CON           | PAR       | PCS    | PCV     |
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh             | 1899   | 314        | 6 475     | 446       | 9         | 1875      | 374 8     | 363    | 515     | 8       | 2341   | 394    | 8             | 538       | 719    | 13      |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh          | 30     | 1          | 0 12      | 1         | 0         | 47        | 3 0       | 5      | 3       | 0       | 14     | 5      | 0             | 5         | 5      | 0       |
| 3        | Assam                      | 3530   | 385        | 0 1717    | 395       | 0         | 4846 579  | 2         | 6096   | 931     | 2       | 1733   | 634    | 6             | 2078      | 776    | 7       |
| 4        | Bihar                      | 1512   | 651        | 0 751     | 727       | 0         | 1413      | 424 2     | 980    | 520     | 2       | 1621   | 901    | 2             | 1435      | 1009   | 2       |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh               | 297    | 152        | 3 209     | 188       | 3         | 352       | 200       | 0 260  | 245     | 0       | 439    | 331    | 37            | 393       | 384    | 38      |
| 6        | Goa                        | 40     | 6          | 0 15      | 15        | 0         | 36 18     | 0         | 42     | 22      | 0       | 90     | 15     | 0             | 41        | 23     | 0       |
| 7        | Gujarat                    | 1283   | 475        | 0 942     | 906       | 0         | 1536 715  | 0         | 1395   | 1394    | 0       | 1417   | 789    | 0             | 1327      | 1317   | 0       |
| 8        | Haryana                    | 656    | 221        | 0 347     | 323       | 0         | 622 326   |           | 3 647  | 601     | 4       | 681    | 386    | 6             | 935       | 656    | 9       |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh           | 98     | 31         | 0 46      | 39        | 0         | 70 63     | 1         | 68     | 77      | 1       | 77     | 43     | 1             | 30        | 48     | 1       |
| 10       | Jharkhand                  | 1204   | 462        | 125 820   | 791       | 131       | 953       | 400 25    | 1414   | 1215    | 45      | 967    | 419    | 6             | 1053      | 925    | 6       |
| 11       | Karnataka                  | 10741  | 2842       | 2 489     | 2916      | 2         | 8136 5801 | 10        | 615    | 5967    | 12      | 12556  | 3368   | 12            | 679       | 3557   | 13      |
| 12       | Kerala                     | 426    | 161        | 0 299     | 179       | 0         | 626 287   | 2         | 447    | 345     | 2       | 773    | 441    | 7             | 550       | 537    | 7       |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh             | 699    | 445        | 14 692    | 598       | 15        | 589       | 487 50    | 803    | 802     | 119     | 826    | 471    | 59            | 664       | 723    | 78      |
| 14       | Maharashtra                | 5496   | 902        | 3 1735    | 1238      | 3         | 5562      | 1428 23   | 2475   | 1914    | 60      | 8249   | 1410   | 15            | 2582      | 2000   | 18      |
| 15       | Manipur                    | 79     | 0          | 0 17      | 0         | 0         | 67        | 2 0       | 31     | 2       | 0       | 18     | 0      | 0             | 12        | 0      | 0       |
| 16       | Meghalaya                  | 142    | 1          | 0 9       | 7         | 0         | 107       | 6 0       | 2      | 8       | 0       | 75     |        | 4 0           | 6         | 6      | 0       |
| 17       | Mizoram                    | 13     | 8          | 2 4       | 8         | 2         | 30 20     |           | 3 31   | 21      | 3       | 1      | 0      | 0             | 0         | 0      | 0       |
| 18       | Nagaland #                 | 8      | 0          | 0 0       | 0         | 0         | 8         | 0 0       | 1      | 0       | 0       | 4      | 1      | 0             | 3         | 1      | 0       |
| 19       | Odisha                     | 1931   | 282        | 0 369     | 396       | 0         | 2037 313  | 0         | 363    | 412     | 0       | 1983   |        | 283 3         | 379       | 433    | 3       |
| 20       | Punjab                     | 378    | 106        | 1         | 298 162   | 1         | 551 188   | 4         | 416    | 247     | 4       | 697    |        | 143 3         | 489       | 195    | 3       |
| 21       | Rajasthan                  | 1354   | 340        | 24        | 541 520   | 32        | 1504 502  | 23        | 861    | 864     | 40      | 1833   | 677    | 28            | 884       | 870    | 32      |
| 22       | Sikkim                     | 0      | 0          | 0 0       | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0 0       | 0      | 0       | 0       | 26     | 0      | 0             | 0         | 0      | 0       |
| 23 Tamil | Nadu                       | 782    | 135        | 7 516     | 237       | 9 1076    | 147       | 6         | 612    | 198     | 8       | 2082   | 245    | 5             | 916       | 382    | 8       |
| 24       | Telangana                  | 5024   | 939        | 280 1169  | 1158      | 282 10303 | 1361      | 19        | 1478   | 2179    | 21      | 15297  | 2393   | 60            | 2442      | 3967   | 78      |
| 25       | Tripura                    | 34     | 5          | 0 6       | 5         | 0         | 24 10     |           | 0 8    | 10      | 0       | 30     | 9      | 0             | 3         | 12     | 0       |
| 26       | Uttar Pradesh              | 11097  | 4987       | 642 6491  | 6427      | 878 8829  | 4407      | 292       | 6887   | 6006    | 387     | 10117  | 4737   | 838           | 7122      | 6571   | 1068    |
| 27       | Uttarakhand                | 243    | 58         | 0 93      | 80        | 0         | 718 158   | 0         | 207    | 266     | 0       | 559    | 121    | 0             | 155       | 181    | 0       |
| 28       | West                       | 712    | 178        | 0         |           |           | 513       | 17        | 246    | 336     | 17      | 401    | 432    |               | 355       | 493    |         |
| TOTAL    | Bengal STATE(S)            | 49708  | 14087 1109 | 203 18265 | 313 18075 | 0 1367    | 307 52430 | 18526 490 | 26753  | 25100   | 735     |        | 64907  | 11 18652 1107 | 25076     | 25790  | 11 1395 |
| 29       | A&N Islands                | 5      | 5          | 0 3       | 5         | 0         | 8 3       | 0         | 12     | 4       | 0       | 28     | 7      | 1             | 9         | 7      | 1       |
| 30       | Chandigarh                 | 17     | 3          | 4         |           | 2         |           |           |        | 9       | 0       | 27     | 8      | 2             | 17        | 9      |         |
| 31       | D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu | 3      | 1          | 1 0 1     | 3 1       |           | 15 5      | 6 2 0     | 0 4    | 4       | 7 0     | 5      | 5      | 0             | 4         | 6      | 3 0     |
| 32       | Delhi                      | 168    | 61         |           | 77        | 0 0       |           |           | 494    | 336     | 1       | 685    |        |               | 589       |        | 6       |
|          |                            |        |            | 0 107     |           | 356       | 157       | 1         |        |         |         |        | 192    | 6             |           | 345    |         |
| 33       | Jammu & Kashmir            | 120    | 14         | 0 33      | 23        | 0         | 154 49    |           | 0 0    | 102     | 60 0    | 173    | 53     | 1             | 76        | 79     | 1       |
| 34       | Ladakh                     | 1      | 0 0        | 0         | 0         | 0         | 5         | 0         | 0      | 0       | 0       |        | 3      | 0             | 0 0       | 0      | 0       |
| 35       | Lakshadweep                | 3      | 0          | 0 2       | 0         | 0         | 1         | 1         | 0 0    | 1       | 0       |        | 1      | 0             | 1 0       | 0 25   | 1       |
| 36       | Puducherry                 | 10     | 5          | 0 5 155   | 5 114     | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0 1    | 0 0 412 | 0       | 64     | 986    | 8             | 0 28 1118 |        | 0 12    |
|          | TOTAL UT(S)                | 327    | 89         | 1         |           | 2         | 544       | 218       |        | 621     | 1       |        | 273    | 11            | 723       | 471    |         |
|          | TOTAL (ALL INDIA)          | 50035  | 14176 1110 | 18420     | 18189     | 1369      | 52974     | 18744 491 | 27374  | 25512   | 736     | 65893  | 18925  |               | 25799     | 26261  | 1407    |

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