Mumbai: More than 58,000 online banking fraud complaints have been submitted with cyber cyber Maharashtra in the past 12 months.
These include 14,000 pluses from Mumbai.
The amount involved walked to several crores.
However, nearly 600 cases have resulted in fir.
Many applications have turned into a unknown violation, which did not appear in crime statistics and were not checked unless the court order encouraged it.
Although being among the worst devastated by Cybercrime, Maharashtra has played a problem and does not show urgency in working with the center to institutionalize the helpline-cum-call center to freeze or track the flow of money stolen digitally.
TimesViewit is a police officer who is proud of the large standard of investigative work and advanced use of technology.
However, Mumbai law enforcers left behind from several states including Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka in handling cyber fraud.
The problem seems doubled: the police chose to play the extent to which online money theft has rooted; Second, the administrator has failed to fight against the crime mode that appears as a priority.
The Ministry of Houses of the Union and Crime Crime Cyber ​​India has launched Helpline ‘155260’ in seven states and the United States.
This allows victims of fraud to register instant complaints and have increased information for financial intermediaries involved in the transaction.
It has resulted in Delhi and Rajasthan Police restoring RS 1.13 Crore since Helpline opened in 1.
April 1.
Maharashtra cyber police, on the other hand, has set deadlines to implement the plan.
“Mumbaikars sat ducks for Cyber ​​Cons, thanks to the Government of attendance, police and Bank Bengaluru, facilitated by the Bank of India’s reserves, opening the Helpline for victims of digital fraud transactions, to immediately freeze money transfers.
Hitherto, fraudsters have managed to cash Because the Bank will demand the first information report (FIR) submitted only after ensuring facts and requires investigative resources.
Emergency numbers help save time by sending real-time warnings to financial intermediaries debited and credited in transactions and can prevent funds from the withdrawal of the perpetrators.
” There is a golden clock concept where we must respond and cut the transmission chain.
Also, the first respondent here must be a bank or payment platform as that’s where the transaction takes place, “said Kamal Pant, Police Commissioner, Bengaluru.
Apart from Bengaluru, at least seven states and the United States have now mobilized the technology platform, aligning with a cyber reporting portal National, with the help of the Central Government and Bank India’s reserves to prevent cyber criminals.
Unlike the South Metro, these areas have worked with the Ministry of Houses Uni to regulate the mechanism.
The bad news is Maharashtra is not one of them.
Commissioner with the police (Mumbai Crime) Milind Bharambe said Helpline to freeze accounts in cases of online fraud has not been launched in the city.
Cyber ​​Country Police are nodal agents who work on the project, but there is no clarity when it will be ready.
For one, it requires a big investment by Maharashtra to establish a call center to receive Complaints and send Warning to the bank and wallet operator.
State Cyber ​​Cell (Pro) Police Inspector Sanjay Shintre said they worked with the government to start.
A very placed source to TI, “Helpline should have been applied in the state of Maharashtra and Mumbai because of the high number of virtual violations (online fraud) is recorded every year.
This is more than 58,000 in Maharashtra and 14,000 in Mumbai each in the past year “The Bengaluru model shows it can even be done with a smaller size to serve the city before being improved for the entire state.
Their Cybercrime incidence report (CIRS) overcomes high frequencies, low-value crime such as phishing and fake messages and using existing emergency response numbers.
Lawyer Cyber ​​Dr.
Prashant Mali said, “We Mumbaikars sitting ducks for cyber criminals throughout the country and they are assisted by government actions.
The state, even if it carries staff from the weapons division, can form and operate the call center to freeze online fraud.
Apart from Bengaluru Police , Police Cyber ​​Gujarat also managed to save more than RS2.5 Crore in 2020 after freezing.
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