{"id":33573,"date":"2018-10-30T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33573"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:29:16","slug":"many-cybercrime-cases-not-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/many-cybercrime-cases-not-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Many cybercrime cases not investigated\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/many-cybercrime-cases-not-investigated\/article21235628.ece\"><strong>Many cybercrime cases not investigated<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NCRB data on cybercrime&amp; crimes against state<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data on Cybercrime<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lack of investigation<\/strong>: More than 12,000 incidents of cybercrime were reported in 2016, but nearly the same number of such crimes carried forward from the previous years had not been investigated<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increase of 6.3%<\/strong>: In 2016, 12,317 such incidents were reported and in 2015 the figure stood at 11,592, a jump of 6.3%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest in UP<\/strong>: Uttar Pradesh with 2,639 cases reported the highest number of incidents accounting for 21.4%, followed by Maharashtra with 2,380, Karnataka 1,101 and Rajasthan 941cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Motives of cybercrime<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Illegal gain<\/strong> (5,987 incidents) and<strong> revenge<\/strong> (1,056) were the two top motives that accounted for cybercrimes<\/li>\n<li>Sexual exploitation (686), insulting the modesty of women (569) and causing disrepute (448) constituted 13% of the crimes<\/li>\n<li>There were 40 cases that were done with a \u201cpolitical\u201d motive<\/li>\n<li>14 cases pertained to sale and purchase of illegal drugs<\/li>\n<li>There were 149 cases of inciting crimes against a community<\/li>\n<li>Three cases of inciting hate crimes against the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data on crimes against state<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tamil Nadu topped the list when it came to booking people for committing crimes against the State, which includes cases of sedition<\/li>\n<li>Of the 6,986 cases registered in 2016, 1,827 or 26% cases were reported from Tamil Nadu, followed by U.P. 1,414, Haryana 1,286 and Assam 343 cases<\/li>\n<li>Under the Official Secrets Act, 30 cases were reported<\/li>\n<li>922 cases were registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest in Meghalaya<\/strong>: Meghalaya with 42 cases registered the most number of cases under Sections pertaining to sedition and waging war against the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many cybercrime cases not investigated\u00a0 Context NCRB data on cybercrime&amp; crimes against state Data on Cybercrime Lack of investigation: More than 12,000 incidents of cybercrime were reported in 2016, but nearly the same number of such crimes carried forward from the previous years had not been investigated Increase of 6.3%: In 2016, 12,317 such incidents&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/many-cybercrime-cases-not-investigated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Many cybercrime cases not investigated\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704829172},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}