New Delhi: Among the four main metropolitan cities, Delhi registered the number of cases of Cybercrime at least in 166, according to the latest National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB).
However, cybercrimes in the national capital saw an increase in 2020 compared to 2019 when registering 107 cases like that.
Among the four main metro cities, Mumbai registered 2,433 cases, Chennai registered 186 cases, and Kolkata registered 172 cases, data showed.
NCRB, which functions under the Ministry of Houses Uni, classifies 19 cities with more than 20 lakh populations as Metropolitan – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Letters.
Among them, Bengaluru reported the highest number of Cybercrime cases at 8,892 while Coimbatore recorded four cases like that.
Of the total 166 cases registered in Delhi last year, 12 cases related to cyber stalking / bullying female / children (part 354d IPC), data shows.
Mumbai registered 105 cases of cyber stalking and bullying, Chennai registered two cases like that, and no such cases were reported in Kolkata, according to data.
Two cases of OTP fraud, 19 online banking fraud cases, six cases of cheating (section 420) and nine other cases are registered in Delhi in 2020, data shows.
While Mumbai witnessed 57 cases of OTP fraud, Chennai and Kolkata reported that there were no cases like that.
A total of 289 cases of online banking fraud were registered in Mumbai, he said.
However, no false news about social media (Section 505) was submitted in the national capital, but the numbers for Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata each established at five, 14 and 11, data showed.
Criber analysis reported from 19 metropolitan cities quoted that personal revenge, anger, fraud, extortion, and sexual exploitation was one of the motives behind the violation.
Delhi reported two cases of crime carried out because of personal revenge, three due to anger, 23 fraud cases, 15 extortion, 20 sexual exploitation, and 103 in other categories in 2020, data showed.