Lok Sabha Question No. 1497 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-09
Subject: Establishment of Cyber Crime Units
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1497

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 9 TH  DECEMBER, 2025/ AGRAHAYANA 18, 1947 (SAKA)

ESTABLISHMENT OF CYBER CRIME UNITS

1497. SHRI VISHNU DAYAL RAM:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has established dedicated cyber crime units or police stations at the State, divisional, and district levels to tackle the growing incidents of cyber offences;
- (b) if so, the total number of such units created during the last five years, along with Statewise details of their establishment and functioning;
- (c) whether all States and Union Territories have been brought under the framework of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C); and
- (d)  if  not,  the  reasons  for  delay  and  the  steps  being  taken  to  ensure uniform establishment of these units across the country?

## ANSWER

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

(a) & (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  establishment  of  cyber  crime  police stations  to tackle  the  growing  incidents  of  cyber  offences  through

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 1497 FOR 09.12.2025

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

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 2024. The details of the total number of Cyber  Crime  Police  Stations  in  States/UTs  for  the  last  five  years  is  at Annexure.

To strengthen the coordination mechanism and uniformity to deal with cyber  crimes  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  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.

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- ii. 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.
- iii. The 'Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System' (CFCFRMS), under I4C, has been launched in year 2021 onboarding all States/UTs  for  immediate  reporting  of  financial  frauds  and  to  stop siphoning off funds by the fraudsters. A tollfree Helpline number '1930' has  been  operationalized  to  get  assistance  in  lodging  online  cyber complaints.
3. A  State  of  the  Art,  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
- iv. cooperation to tackle cybercrime.

- v. 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.
- vi. Samanvaya Platform which has been made operational to serve as an Management Information System(MIS) platform, data repository and a coordination  platform  for  LEAs  of  all  States/UTs  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 technolegal  assistance  by  Law  Enforcement    Agencies  from  I4C  and  other SMEs.  It  has  lead  to  arrest  of  16,840  accused  and  1,05,129  Cyber Investigation assistance request.
- vii. States  have  been  requested  to  establish  State/Regional  Cyber  Crime Coordination  Centre (S4C/R4C) in  lines  of  I4C for seamless

exchange of cybercrime intelligence/threat feed about cybercrime with I4C.  Till  date,  S4Cs  have  been  established  in  Bihar,  Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

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ANNEXURE

## STATE/UT -WISE DETAILS OF CYBER CRIME POLICE STATIONS

| Sl.No. STATES/UTs   |                           | Number of Cyber Crime Police Station   | Number of Cyber Crime Police Station   | Number of Cyber Crime Police Station   | Number of Cyber Crime Police Station   | Number of Cyber Crime Police Station   |
|---------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| Sl.No. STATES/UTs   |                           | As on 01.01.2020                       | As on 01.01.2021                       | As on 01.01.2022                       | As on 01.01.2023                       | As on 01.01.2024                       |
| 1                   | Andhra Pradesh            | 1                                      | 3                                      | 3                                      | 3                                      | 3                                      |
| 2                   | Arunachal Pradesh         | 0                                      | 0                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 3                   | Assam                     | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 4                   | Bihar                     | 1                                      | 0                                      | 1                                      | 0                                      | 44                                     |
| 5                   | Chhattisgarh              | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 6                                      |
| 6                   | Goa                       | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 7                   | Gujarat                   | 4                                      | 14                                     | 24                                     | 24                                     | 39                                     |
| 8                   | Haryana                   | 2                                      | 3                                      | 8                                      | 29                                     | 29                                     |
| 9                   | Himachal Pradesh          | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 4                                      |
| 10                  | Jharkhand                 | 7                                      | 7                                      | 7                                      | 7                                      | 7                                      |
| 11                  | Karnataka                 | 51                                     | 11                                     | 8                                      | 8                                      | 2                                      |
| 12                  | Kerala                    | 4                                      | 19                                     | 19                                     | 19                                     | 20                                     |
| 13                  | Madhya Pradesh            | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 14                  | Maharashtra               | 43                                     | 43                                     | 46                                     | 46                                     | 47                                     |
| 15                  | Manipur                   | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 16                  | Meghalaya                 | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 17                  | Mizoram                   | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 18                  | Nagaland                  | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 19                  | Odisha                    | 4                                      | 4                                      | 15                                     | 15                                     | 15                                     |
| 20                  | Punjab                    | 2                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      |
| 21                  | Rajasthan                 | 2                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      | 33                                     | 34                                     |
| 22                  | Sikkim                    | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 23                  | Tamil Nadu                | 0                                      | 46                                     | 46                                     | 49                                     | 54                                     |
| 24                  | Telangana                 | 3                                      | 3                                      | 3                                      | 4                                      | 13                                     |
| 25                  | Tripura                   | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 26                  | Uttar Pradesh             | 2                                      | 2                                      | 18                                     | 18                                     | 75                                     |
| 27                  | Uttarakhand               | 1                                      | 1                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      | 2                                      |
| 28                  | West Bengal               | 31                                     | 31                                     | 31                                     | 36                                     | 36                                     |
| 29                  | A &NIslands               | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 1                                      |
| 30                  | Chandigarh                | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| 31                  | D &NHaveli and Daman &Diu | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 32                  | Delhi                     | 0                                      | 0                                      | 15                                     | 15                                     | 15                                     |
|                     | Jammu and                 |                                        | 2                                      |                                        | 2                                      | 2                                      |
| 33                  | Kashmir                   | 2                                      |                                        | 2                                      |                                        |                                        |
| 34                  | Ladakh                    | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 35                  | Lakshadweep               | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      | 0                                      |
| 36                  | Puducherry                | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      | 1                                      |
| TOTAL               | TOTAL                     | 169                                    | 202                                    | 262                                    | 323                                    | 459                                    |

Source: BPR&D publication 'Data on Police Organizations', 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

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