Jharkhand’s director general of police (DGP) cum director general (DG) CID speaks to TOI’s Sanjay Sahay on the growing impact of cybercrime in the state and how police is working overtime to thwart it. Excerpts:- Q: What is the overall scenario of cybercrime in the state?A: Cyber frauds can be categorised into low-value and high-value crimes. The low-value crimes are taking place by persuading the victims to download APK files in the name of preventing blocking of Aadhar card, bank accounts and other pretexts. The APK files enable the cybercriminals to see the victim’s personnel data, which is used for committing the fraud. These crimes are mostly taking place from within the country. The high-value crimes like digital arrests and investment frauds are mostly being carried out from outside the country. Q: What are the measures taken by CID to curb the crimes? A: The victim can lodge their complaints by dialling 1930 or through cybercrime.gov.in in case of a fraud. The Jharkhand police have developed a portal called Pratibimb, which has data of mobile phones used for cybercrimes across the country and their district wise locations. The data is provided by Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, a wing of Ministry of Home affairs (MHA). With the help of the data, superintendents of police are taking action against cybercriminals. Around 1,500 police officers from all over the country are also using Pratibimb. In case of cyber fraud from outside the country we can act if an Indian mobile number is involved as the person could be identified. However, if it is through a foreign number we would not know from which part of the country the criminal is making a call. We also cannot do much if it is a virtual number. Q: A large number of mule accounts in the state are helping cybercriminals sitting outside the country. What steps are being taken?. A. We have received data about many mule accounts, which are operational in Jharkhand, from Samanvaya portal of MHA and started taking action. Any person who lends his account for cybercrime on commission basis would be jailed. We have registered an FIR against 40 mule accounts having transactions of Rs 10 lakhs and above on Tuesday. Q: What measures have been taken to build infrastructure and manpower to tackle cybercrimes? A: The state govt has been very kind to us in this regard. As per Information Technology Act, only an inspector rank officer can investigate cybercrime cases. The state has, however, permitted that if the DGP desires he can take measures to allow a sub-inspector rank officer to investigate. This has addressed the manpower problem to a considerable extent. The state has also issued a special order allowing an officer air travel for bringing cybercriminals from various parts of the country. However, there is still shortage of trained people with technical knowledge to investigate the cases. We are emphasizing on on-the-job training. There are not many officers who are interested in cybercrime investigation, which is a problem.
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