ADG CID Mahesh M Bhagwat interacted with the Judicial Officers and said that Cybercrime is a future crime and reiterated the fact that in future every Law Enforcement Agency and Judicial Officer needs to learn in-depth about the various MOs in Cybercrimes.
He said that in today’s times every person who uses internet is prone to become a victim of cybercrime. While saying so he cited an example of a victim who was browsing an innocent looking website and became prey to a cyber criminal .He further mentioned a few cases like the organ trade case where the victim saw an Ad on social media for the need of organ and how the fraudster sent him home after taking the organ and paid him 10% of the promised amount of money.
Similarly youth are attracted by cybercriminals for technical jobs but they end up becoming criminals as they are forced to commit Cyber Crimes.
He added that vulnerability of a person to cybercrime can be reduced to a great extent if they use an alphanumeric special character inclusive,complicated password for all their online accounts that is difficult to crack by fraudsters online. Password he said must be changed once in three months and one should never use easy passwords which is a common mistake committed by many people. While specifying about vulnerability to cybercrime he mentioned the various steps taken by Telangana State Police to combat CyberCrime.
Telangana State Police have 4 exclusive CYBERCRIME Police Stations. One in CID, remaining 3 with one each in Hyderabad city, Cyberabad, Rachakonda.
An exclusive T4C Telangana Cybercrime Coordination Centre is established in line with I4C of MHA. www.cybercrime.gov.in is an exclusive website for reporting cybercrime. 1930 is a toll free number for reporting Cyber financial fraud.
He further stated that this kind of training is a need of the hour. Also hands on training is introduced from this batch for better understanding cyber crime, it’s investigation.
Smt.Sridevi Ayaluri, Director IT&CD, Dr.MCRHRD Institute, Sri. Yadagiri IPS,SP CyberCrimes CID, Lavanya NJP, SP I/C Cyber crimes CID, Sri. GunaShekhar DSP, CyberCrimes CID, Smt. Ch. Sireesha Faculty IT & Course Coordinator have participated in the program.
