Report on Cyber Crimes

Introduction

In today’s day and age people are dealing with various cases of cyber crimes on a day-to-day basis. Cyber crimes are increasing at an alarming rate in the world. Hence, it becomes important to understand what exactly is cyber crime along with the different kinds of cyber crimes that exist.

Definition

In simple terms, cyber crime refers to all illegal activities and crimes that take place through computers or the internet. The computer may be used for committing the crime or as a target. Cyber crime can affect any of your digital devices (including PCs, notebooks, smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, home electronic systems, etc).

Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar have defined Cyber crimes as :

“Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm, or loss, to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet (networks including chat rooms, emails, notice boards and groups) and mobile phones (Bluetooth/SMS/MMS)”

Classification of Cyber Crime

Cyber crimes can be classified into the following categories:

1. Against Individuals – They affect individuals or thejr properties directly.

e.g – Phishing, Spamming, Cyber stalking

2. Against companies/organizations – When a company’s online presence or any of its products are hacked, it becomes a serious problem that can result in a big number of consequences for the company, as well as their employees, associates and customers.

e.g –  data breaches, cyber extortion and warez distribution

3. Against society as a whole – Affects the society as a whole

e.g – Financial crimes against public organizations, gambling, illegal trafficking, forgery

4. Against the Government – This is commonly known as Cyber terrorism. It involves activities such as breaking into government systems and networks, defacing and shutting down military websites, and spreading propaganda.

Types of Cyber crimes

1. Hacking

Hacking a computer simply implies getting into another’s computer without permission. Gaining unlawful access to another’s computer is hacking.

Hackers (the people doing the ‘hacking’) are basically computer programmers, who have an advanced understanding of computers and commonly misuse this knowledge for devious reasons.  Hackers see the weakness in the target computer programme and then find ways to enter and access therein. There could be several motives as regards the need to hack – fame, greed, power, to show off their expertise or simply cause destruction.

2. Phishing

Phishing attacks are a common form of social engineering used to trick customers into disclosing their personal security information; their credit card numbers, bank account details, or other sensitive information by posing as trustworthy businesses in an e-mail. Phishing is also known as Spoofing.

Usually the following separate steps are carried out in order for such attacks to work:

1. Setting up a mimic web site.
2. Sending out a convincingly fake e-mail, luring the users to that mimic site.
3. Users enter personal information which is then compiled and either sold online or used for personal gain.

3. Identity Theft

Identity theft is the act of obtaining sensitive information about another person without his or her knowledge, and using this information to commit theft or fraud.

It can also be used to open a phone/internet account in your name, use your name to plan a criminal activity and claim government benefits in your name.

“Credit card fraud” is a wide ranging term for crimes involving identity theft where the criminal uses your credit card to fund his transactions. Credit card fraud is identity theft in its simplest form.

4. Denial of Service Attacks

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an explicit attempt by attackers to deny service to intended users of that service. It involves flooding a computer resource with more requests than it can handle consuming its available bandwidth which results in server overload. This causes the resource (e.g. a web server) to crash or slow down significantly so that no one can access it. The hacker then hacks into the system once the network is down.

5. Social Engineering

Social engineering involves criminals making direct contact with you usually by phone or email. They want to gain your confidence and usually pose as a customer service agent so you’ll give the necessary information needed. This is typically a password, the company you work for, or bank information. Cyber criminals will find out what they can about you on the internet and then attempt to add you as a friend on social accounts. Once they gain access to an account, they can sell your information or secure accounts in your name.

6. Cyberstalking

Cyber Stalking can be defined as the repeated acts harassment or threatening behaviour of the cybercriminal towards the victim by using Internet services. [OR Cyber stalking involves following a person’s movements across the Internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering the chat-rooms frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc.]

Cyber-stalkers make use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications device to stalk another person. This person could be a stranger or someone you know.

It is a relatively new form of harassment, unfortunately, rising to alarming levels especially in big cities like Mumbai.

7. Cyber Pornography

Pornography’ is “describing or showing sexual acts in order to cause sexual excitement through books, films, etc.” This includes pornographic websites; pornographic material produced using computers and use of internet to download and transmit pornographic videos, pictures, photos, writings etc. There are more than 420 million individual pornographic webpages today.

Child pornography is a very unfortunate reality of the Internet. The Internet is being highly used by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually, worldwide. Pedophiles use a false identity to trap the children/teenagers.

8. Cyberterrorism

Cyberterrorism, in general, can be defined as an act of terrorism committed through the use of cyberspace or computer resources. A cyberterrorist is someone who intimidates or coerces a government or an organization to advance his or her political or social objectives by launching a computer-based attack against computers, networks, or the information stored on them.

As such, a simple propaganda piece on the Internet that there will be bomb attacks during the holidays can be considered cyberterrorism. There are also hacking activities directed towards individuals, families, organized by groups within networks, tending to cause fear among people, demonstrate power, collecting information relevant for ruining peoples’ lives, robberies, blackmailing, etc.

9. Botnets

The word “botnet” comes from the roots “bot” and “network,” and it’s used to refer to a large number of controlled computers (bots) linked over a network (Internet). These botnets are used to spread malicious files and software, infect other systems, launch DDoS attacks, steal data, send spam campaigns and more.

10. Spamming

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising.

For e.g. get-rich quick schemes.

There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users.

1.Cancellable Usenet / Usenet spam – is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups.

2. Email “spamming” refers to sending email to thousands and thousands of users – similar to a chain letter. Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a subset of electronic spam. Spammers collect email addresses from chatrooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users’ address books, and are sold to other spammers.

11. Data Diddling

This involves changing data prior or during input into a computer. In other words, information is changed from the way it should be entered by a person typing. in the data, a virus that changes data, the programmer of the database or application, or anyone else involved in the process of having information stored in a computer file. It also include automatic changing the financial information for some time before processing and then restoring original information.

12. Salami Slicing Attack

A “salami slicing attack” or “salami fraud” is a technique by which cyber-criminals steal money or resources a bit at a time so that there’s no noticeable difference in overall size. The perpetrator gets away with these little pieces from a large number of resources and thus accumulates a considerable amount over a period of time. The essence of this method is the failure to detect the misappropriation.

The most classic approach is “collect-the-roundoff” technique. Most calculations are carried out in a particular currency are rounded off up to the nearest number about half the time and down the rest of the time. If a programmer decides to collect these excess fractions of rupees to a separate account, no net loss to the system seems apparent. This is done by carefully transferring the funds into the perpetrator’s account.

13. Software Piracy

Software piracy is the unauthorised use and is distribution of computer software.

e.g – Downloading music, videos , movies from the internet for free using torrents.

Internet piracy is an integral part of our lives which knowingly or unknowingly we all contribute to by not only  using someone else’s intellectual property illegally but also passing it on to our friends. This form of cyber crime affects our global economy on a large scale.

The following constitute software piracy:

• Loading unlicensed software on your PC
• Using single-licensed software on multiple computers
• Using a key generator to circumvent copy protection
• Distributing a licensed or unlicensed (“cracked”) version of software over the internet and offline

 

Cyber Crimes (State/UT-wise) – 2016-2018

S. No	State/UT	2016	2017	2018	Percentage Share of State/UT (2018)	Mid-Year Projected Population (in Lakhs) (2018)+	Rate of Total Cyber Crimes (2018)++
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	616	931	1207	4.4	520.3	2.3
2	Arunachal Pradesh	4	1	7	0.0	14.9	0.5
3	Assam	696	1120	2022	7.4	340.4	5.9
4	Bihar	309	433	374	1.4	1183.3	0.3
5	Chhattisgarh	90	171	139	0.5	284.7	0.5
6	Goa	31	13	29	0.1	15.3	1.9
7	Gujarat	362	458	702	2.6	673.2	1.0
8	Haryana	401	504	418	1.5	284.0	1.5
9	Himachal Pradesh	31	56	69	0.3	72.7	0.9
10	Jammu & Kashmir	28	63	73	0.3	134.3	0.5
11	Jharkhand	259	720	930	3.4	370.5	2.5
12	Karnataka	1101	3174	5839	21.4	654.5	8.9
13	Kerala	283	320	340	1.2	350.0	1.0
14	Madhya Pradesh	258	490	740	2.7	814.7	0.9
15	Maharashtra	2380	3604	3511	12.9	1213.9	2.9
16	Manipur	11	74	29	0.1	30.8	0.9
17	Meghalaya	39	39	74	0.3	32.0	2.3
18	Mizoram	1	10	6	0.0	11.8	0.5
19	Nagaland	2	0	2	0.0	21.3	0.1
20	Odisha	317	824	843	3.1	435.5	1.9
21	Punjab	102	176	239	0.9	297.0	0.8
22	Rajasthan	941	1304	1104	4.1	765.9	1.4
23	Sikkim	1	1	1	0.0	6.6	0.2
24	Tamil Nadu	144	228	295	1.1	754.6	0.4
25	Telangana	593	1209	1205	4.4	370.3	3.3
26	Tripura	8	7	20	0.1	39.6	0.5
27	Uttar Pradesh	2639	4971	6280	23.0	2230.0	2.8
28	Uttarakhand	62	124	171	0.6	110.6	1.5
29	West Bengal	478	568	335	1.2	965.0	0.3
	TOTAL STATE(S)	12187	21593	27004	99.1	12997.9	2.1
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A & N Islands	3	3	7	0.0	4.0	1.8
31	Chandigarh	26	32	30	0.1	11.7	2.6
32	D&N Haveli	1	1	0	0.0	5.3	0.0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0.0	4.0	0.0
34	Delhi UT	98	162	189	0.7	195.6	1.0
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	4	0.0	0.7	6.0
36	Puducherry	2	5	14	0.1	14.8	0.9
	TOTAL UT(S)	130	203	244	0.9	236.0	1.0
	TOTAL (ALL INDIA)	12317	21796	27248	100.0	13233.8	2.1

Note : i) ‘++’ Crime Rate is calculated as Crime per one lakh of population.

1. ii) ‘+ Population Source: Technical group on Population Projections Nov,2019 National Commission on Population, MoHFW based on 2011 census.

III) As per data provided by States/UTs

1. iv) Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

 

Cyber Crimes – IT Act Cases (Crime Head-wise & State/UT-wise) – 2018

S. No	State/UT	A. Offences under I.T.Act
		Tampering computer source documents (Sec.65)	Computer Related Offences
			Computer Related Offences (Total)	A) Computer Related Offences (Sec.66) (Total)	Computer Related Offences (Sec.66)		B) Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (Sec.66B)	C) Identity Theft (Sec.66C)
					a1) Ransom- ware	a2) Offences other than Ransom- ware
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	7	344	10	0	10	25	276
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	2	0	0	0	0	1
3	Assam	0	823	172	0	172	4	103
4	Bihar	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
5	Chhattisgarh	0	18	4	0	4	2	6
6	Goa	1	10	1	0	1	0	7
7	Gujarat	13	160	21	2	19	2	108
8	Haryana	2	197	52	0	52	3	26
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	26	3	0	3	0	14
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	22	9	0	9	0	7
11	Jharkhand	0	648	217	51	166	70	220
12	Karnataka	14	5526	64	7	57	17	5117
13	Kerala	6	123	16	1	15	3	20
14	Madhya Pradesh	1	243	15	9	6	1	96
15	Maharashtra	4	383	24	0	24	12	189
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Meghalaya	0	50	6	0	6	1	22
18	Mizoram	0	5	0	0	0	0	2
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	0	4	0	0	0	0	1
21	Punjab	0	36	5	1	4	1	6
22	Rajasthan	1	476	22	1	21	26	195
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	2	67	25	7	18	5	5
25	Telangana	8	465	19	2	17	5	31
26	Tripura	0	12	0	0	0	0	6
27	Uttar Pradesh	192	4285	3219	1136	2083	213	174
28	Uttarakhand	3	102	16	1	15	0	12
29	West Bengal	1	64	28	0	28	1	26
	TOTAL STATE(S)	255	14093	3948	1218	2730	391	6672
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
31	Chandigarh	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	2	43	20	0	20	0	13
35	Lakshadweep	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	2	48	21	0	21	0	16
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	257	14141	3969	1218	2751	391	6688

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	A. Offences under I.T.Act
		Computer Related Offences		Cyber Terrorism (Sec.66 F)	Publication/ transmission of obscene / sexually explicit act in electronic form (Sec. 67)
		D) Cheating by personation by using computer resource (Sec.66D)	E) Violation of Privacy (Sec.66E)		Publication/ transmission of obscene / sexually explicit act in electronic form (Total)	A) Publishing or transmitting obscene material in Electronic Form
1	2	10	11	12	13	14
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	26	7	0	22	2
2	Arunachal Pradesh	1	0	0	4	4
3	Assam	516	28	8	644	223
4	Bihar	0	0	0	2	0
5	Chhattisgarh	6	0	0	47	18
6	Goa	0	2	0	6	3
7	Gujarat	22	7	0	62	32
8	Haryana	110	6	0	158	31
9	Himachal Pradesh	8	1	0	41	6
10	Jammu & Kashmir	4	2	0	16	2
11	Jharkhand	134	7	0	23	4
12	Karnataka	288	40	0	207	149
13	Kerala	52	32	1	107	45
14	Madhya Pradesh	130	1	0	192	79
15	Maharashtra	148	10	0	91	40
16	Manipur	0	0	0	1	0
17	Meghalaya	15	6	0	10	3
18	Mizoram	3	0	0	1	1
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	2	2
20	Odisha	3	0	0	208	34
21	Punjab	22	2	0	74	15
22	Rajasthan	228	5	0	73	40
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	1	0
24	Tamil Nadu	28	4	11	134	74
25	Telangana	409	1	0	109	31
26	Tripura	4	2	0	7	3
27	Uttar Pradesh	476	203	1	738	449
28	Uttarakhand	60	14	0	18	7
29	West Bengal	2	7	0	36	31
	TOTAL STATE(S)	2695	387	21	3034	1328
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	0	1	0
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	9	1	0	26	6
35	Lakshadweep	0	1	0	1	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	14	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	9	2	0	42	6
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	2704	389	21	3076	1334

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	A. Offences under I.T.Act
		Publication/transmission of obscene / sexually explicit act in electronic form (Sec. 67)				Interception or Monitoring or decryption of Information (Sec.69)
		B) Publishing or transmitting of material containing Sexually explicit act in electronic form (Sec.67A)	C) Publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in Sexually explicit act in electronic form (Sec.67B)	E) Preservation and retention of information by intermediaries (Sec.67C)	E) Other Sections 67 IT Act
1	2	15	16	17	18	19
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	18	0	0	2	0
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	208	14	5	194	0
4	Bihar	2	0	0	0	0
5	Chhattisgarh	21	1	0	7	0
6	Goa	3	0	0	0	0
7	Gujarat	26	0	0	4	0
8	Haryana	56	1	0	70	0
9	Himachal Pradesh	27	1	3	4	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	6	0	0	8	0
11	Jharkhand	11	0	8	0	0
12	Karnataka	40	2	4	12	1
13	Kerala	41	18	1	2	0
14	Madhya Pradesh	101	4	0	8	0
15	Maharashtra	39	4	1	7	0
16	Manipur	1	0	0	0	0
17	Meghalaya	1	0	0	6	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	166	7	0	1	0
21	Punjab	40	0	3	16	0
22	Rajasthan	20	0	0	13	0
23	Sikkim	0	1	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	39	2	0	19	0
25	Telangana	54	0	0	24	0
26	Tripura	3	1	0	0	0
27	Uttar Pradesh	145	21	1	122	5
28	Uttarakhand	8	3	0	0	0
29	West Bengal	3	0	0	2	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	1079	80	26	521	6
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	1	0	0	0
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	17	1	1	1	0
35	Lakshadweep	1	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	14	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	18	2	1	15	0
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	1097	82	27	536	6

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

 

TABLE 9A.2

Cyber Crimes – IT Act Cases (Crime Head-wise & State/UT-wise) – 2018 (Continued)

S. No	State/UT	A. Offences under I.T.Act				Total Offences under I.T. Act
		Un-authorized access/attempt to access to protected computer system (Sec.70)	Abetment to Commit Offences (Sec.84 B)	Attempt to Commit Offences (Sec.84C)	Other Sections of IT Act
1	2	20	21	22	23	24
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	0	0	0	44	417
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	1	7
3	Assam	0	1	0	141	1617
4	Bihar	0	0	0	0	4
5	Chhattisgarh	0	0	0	0	65
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	17
7	Gujarat	0	0	1	14	250
8	Haryana	0	0	0	25	382
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	1	68
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	0	0	8	46
11	Jharkhand	0	0	11	5	687
12	Karnataka	0	0	0	29	5777
13	Kerala	0	0	0	21	258
14	Madhya Pradesh	0	0	0	12	448
15	Maharashtra	0	0	0	40	518
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0	1
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	3	63
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	6
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	2
20	Odisha	0	0	0	5	217
21	Punjab	0	0	0	25	135
22	Rajasthan	0	0	0	225	775
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	1
24	Tamil Nadu	0	0	0	4	218
25	Telangana	0	0	1	2	585
26	Tripura	0	0	0	0	19
27	Uttar Pradesh	0	0	0	292	5513
28	Uttarakhand	0	0	0	0	123
29	West Bengal	0	0	0	80	181
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	1	13	977	18400
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	0	0	4
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	1
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	0	0	0	3	74
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0	2
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	14
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	0	0	3	95
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	0	1	13	980	18495

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	B. Offences under IPC (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.
		Abetment of Suicide (Online) (Sec.305/306 IPC)	Cyber Stalking/ Bullying of Women/ Children (Sec.354D IPC)	Data theft (Sec.379 to 381)	Fraud (Sec.420 r/w Sec.465, 468- 471 IPC)
					Fraud (Sec.420 r/w Sec.465,468- 471 IPC) (Total)	A) Credit Card/Debit Card
1	2	25	26	27	28	29
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	0	89	14	195	9
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	0	18	0	6	0
4	Bihar	0	2	1	357	5
5	Chhattisgarh	0	13	0	18	0
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	0
7	Gujarat	0	11	6	139	10
8	Haryana	0	5	0	0	0
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	1	0	0	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	0	0	3	0
11	Jharkhand	0	0	0	175	8
12	Karnataka	0	4	0	49	0
13	Kerala	0	8	0	14	0
14	Madhya Pradesh	2	36	1	43	0
15	Maharashtra	2	394	34	1036	143
16	Manipur	0	3	2	0	0
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	0	7	8	392	13
21	Punjab	0	16	0	7	0
22	Rajasthan	1	30	0	72	11
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	0	1	0	5	0
25	Telangana	0	17	27	347	32
26	Tripura	0	0	0	0	0
27	Uttar Pradesh	0	24	6	454	78
28	Uttarakhand	0	9	0	28	0
29	West Bengal	2	18	3	4	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	7	706	102	3344	309
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	1	2	0
31	Chandigarh	0	5	1	2	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	0	28	2	3	0
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	2	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	33	4	9	0
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	7	739	106	3353	309

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	B. Offences under IPC (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.
		Fraud (Sec.420 r/w Sec.465,468-471 IPC)				Cheating (Sec.420)
		B) ATMs	C) Online Banking Fraud	D) OTP Frauds	E) Others
1	2	30	31	32	33	34
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	50	48	67	21	251
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	2	1	3	0	127
4	Bihar	333	15	0	4	6
5	Chhattisgarh	4	12	1	1	16
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	11
7	Gujarat	50	44	21	14	142
8	Haryana	0	0	0	0	1
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	2	0	0	1	2
11	Jharkhand	115	52	0	0	8
12	Karnataka	0	0	43	6	0
13	Kerala	3	5	5	1	10
14	Madhya Pradesh	15	8	2	18	18
15	Maharashtra	304	328	82	179	878
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0	14
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	204	158	0	17	165
21	Punjab	2	3	0	2	13
22	Rajasthan	8	7	9	37	112
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	0	0	0	5	11
25	Telangana	42	140	46	87	57
26	Tripura	0	0	0	0	0
27	Uttar Pradesh	135	132	35	74	111
28	Uttarakhand	11	12	5	0	0
29	West Bengal	0	0	0	4	40
	TOTAL STATE(S)	1280	965	319	471	1993
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	2	0	0	0
31	Chandigarh	1	1	0	0	20
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	2	0	0	1	38
35	Lakshadweep	1	0	0	1	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	4	3	0	2	58
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	1284	968	319	473	2051

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	B. Offences under IPC (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.
		Forgery (Sec.465, 468 & 471)	Defamation/ Morphing (Sec.469 IPC r/w IPC and Indecent representation of women Act)	Fake Profile (r/w IPC/SLL)	Counterfeiting
					Counterfeiting (Total)	A) Currency (Sec.489A to 489E)
1	2	35	36	37	38	39
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	8	7	17	1	1
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	61	0	0	1	1
4	Bihar	0	0	1	0	0
5	Chhattisgarh	3	0	0	0	0
6	Goa	0	0	0	0	0
7	Gujarat	8	1	9	0	0
8	Haryana	0	0	0	0	0
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	1	0	0	0	0
11	Jharkhand	52	0	0	0	0
12	Karnataka	0	0	0	0	0
13	Kerala	1	0	1	0	0
14	Madhya Pradesh	4	3	2	0	0
15	Maharashtra	29	0	8	0	0
16	Manipur	1	0	0	0	0
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	0	4	0	0	0
21	Punjab	2	0	2	0	0
22	Rajasthan	3	1	1	0	0
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	3	0	0	0	0
25	Telangana	2	1	24	0	0
26	Tripura	0	0	0	0	0
27	Uttar Pradesh	72	0	7	0	0
28	Uttarakhand	0	0	1	0	0
29	West Bengal	5	0	4	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	255	17	77	2	2
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	0	0	0
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	5	1	1	0	0
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	5	1	1	0	0
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	260	18	78	2	2

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	B. Offences under IPC (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.				Total Offences under IPC
		Counter-feiting	Cyber    Blackmailing/Threate ning        (Sec.506,503,384 IPC r/w IPC/SLL)	Fake News on Social Media (Sec.505)	Other Offences (r/w IT Act)
		B) Stamps (Sec.255)
1	2	40	41	42	43	44
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	0	25	18	164	789
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	0	29	0	144	386
4	Bihar	0	3	0	0	370
5	Chhattisgarh	0	3	1	20	74
6	Goa	0	0	0	1	12
7	Gujarat	0	6	3	122	447
8	Haryana	0	7	0	20	33
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	1
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	4	1	2	13
11	Jharkhand	0	1	2	1	239
12	Karnataka	0	2	0	5	60
13	Kerala	0	6	1	30	71
14	Madhya Pradesh	0	20	11	146	286
15	Maharashtra	0	12	6	587	2986
16	Manipur	0	1	0	7	28
17	Meghalaya	0	11	0	0	11
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	0	9	0	39	624
21	Punjab	0	14	0	45	99
22	Rajasthan	0	6	0	98	324
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	0	9	30	15	74
25	Telangana	0	16	7	121	619
26	Tripura	0	0	0	1	1
27	Uttar Pradesh	0	12	11	61	758
28	Uttarakhand	0	9	0	0	47
29	West Bengal	0	15	6	51	148
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	220	97	1680	8500
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	0	0	3
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	1	29
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	0	3	0	32	113
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0	2
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	3	0	33	147
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	0	223	97	1713	8647

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

S. No	State/UT	C. Offences under SLL (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.
		Gambling Act (Online Gambling)	Lotteries Act (Online Lotteries)	Copy Right Act, 1957′	Trade Marks Act, 1999
1	2	45	46	47	48
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	1	0	0	0
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0
3	Assam	0	0	19	0
4	Bihar	0	0	0	0
5	Chhattisgarh	0	0	0	0
6	Goa	0	0	0	0
7	Gujarat	0	0	5	0
8	Haryana	1	0	2	0
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	0	14	0
11	Jharkhand	0	0	2	0
12	Karnataka	0	0	1	0
13	Kerala	0	2	6	0
14	Madhya Pradesh	3	0	2	0
15	Maharashtra	1	0	0	0
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0
17	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0
18	Mizoram	0	0	0	0
19	Nagaland	0	0	0	0
20	Odisha	2	0	0	0
21	Punjab	2	0	1	0
22	Rajasthan	0	0	5	0
23	Sikkim	0	0	0	0
24	Tamil Nadu	0	0	1	0
25	Telangana	1	0	0	0
26	Tripura	0	0	0	0
27	Uttar Pradesh	9	0	0	0
28	Uttarakhand	0	0	0	0
29	West Bengal	0	0	2	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	20	2	60	0
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	0	0
31	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0	0
34	Delhi	0	0	2	0
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	0	2	0
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	20	2	62	0

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim

 

Cyber Crimes – IT Act Cases (Crime Head-wise & State/UT-wise) – 2018 (Concluded)

S. No	State/UT	C. Offences under SLL (Involving Communication Devices as Medium/Target) r/w IT Act.		Total Cyber Crimes (IT Act+ IPC r/w IT Act + SLL r/w IT Act)
		Other SLL Crimes	Total Offences under SLL
1	2	49	50	51
STATES:
1	Andhra Pradesh	0	1	1207
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	7
3	Assam	0	19	2022
4	Bihar	0	0	374
5	Chhattisgarh	0	0	139
6	Goa	0	0	29
7	Gujarat	0	5	702
8	Haryana	0	3	418
9	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	69
10	Jammu & Kashmir	0	14	73
11	Jharkhand	2	4	930
12	Karnataka	1	2	5839
13	Kerala	3	11	340
14	Madhya Pradesh	1	6	740
15	Maharashtra	6	7	3511
16	Manipur	0	0	29
17	Meghalaya	0	0	74
18	Mizoram	0	0	6
19	Nagaland	0	0	2
20	Odisha	0	2	843
21	Punjab	2	5	239
22	Rajasthan	0	5	1104
23	Sikkim	0	0	1
24	Tamil Nadu	2	3	295
25	Telangana	0	1	1205
26	Tripura	0	0	20
27	Uttar Pradesh	0	9	6280
28	Uttarakhand	1	1	171
29	West Bengal	4	6	335
	TOTAL STATE(S)	22	104	27004
UNION TERRITORIES:
30	A&N Islands	0	0	7
31	Chandigarh	0	0	30
32	D&N Haveli	0	0	0
33	Daman & Diu	0	0	0
34	Delhi	0	2	189
35	Lakshadweep	0	0	4
36	Puducherry	0	0	14
	TOTAL STATE(S)	0	2	244
	TOTAL ALL INDIA	22	106	27248

• As per data provided by States/UTs

# Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim