Mumbai: While the Internet has pervaded metros in India and is increasingly reaching rural areas, cyber crime too is on the rise. But despite a cyber crime cell being instituted in Mumbai to tackle this menace, there hasn't been even a single conviction yet.
According to information acquired through the Right to Information Act, the Mumbai Police has registered merely 64 cases under the IT Act in the last five years. Most of the registered cases were related to debit and credit card frauds.
Thirty four-year-old Ratish Shah, sales head of a private company, was duped of Rs 1.2 lakh rupees online. He says even registering a complaint with the police was an ordeal.
“We had to run from pillar to post to get our complaint registered. Police were completely unaware of cyber crime laws,” Shah says.
India registers huge losses per year due to Internet fraud, but far from adopting a systematic approach towards tackling the menace, sources from within the police department have told CNN-IBN that most of the trained cyber crime investigators are languishing in departments such as rural policing.
“Cyber crime investigators understand the technology in two years and by the time they get used to it they are transferred. They should have longer tenures like traffic department,” cyber crime expert Vijay Mukhi says.
Questions are being raised over the police's ability to tackle cyber crime.
“The police can't handle mundane crime, so it is too much to expect them to handle a specialized domain like cyber crime,” former IPS officer Y P Singh says.
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