{"id":92972,"date":"2023-01-16T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=92972"},"modified":"2023-01-16T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:50:10","slug":"cyber-crime-cases-decline-in-assam-dgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=92972","title":{"rendered":"Cyber crime cases decline in Assam: DGP\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92915\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/logo_new-2-1-1-4-1-3-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"40\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0T<\/span><\/strong>he rate of <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber crime cases\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>cyber crime cases<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Assam has declined to 1781 cases with an amount Rs 6.41 crore, attempted fraudulently to be withdrawn, successfully traced and frozen, Director General of Police <a href=\"http:\/\/Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta<\/span><\/strong><\/a> said on Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92974\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Cyber crime cases decline in Assam\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92974 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber crime cases decline in Assam\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/325779521_1578258562616273_5297529302350492766_n-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Cyber crime cases decline in Assam: DGP<\/strong>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cyber crimes reported have come down to 1,781 cases in 2022 as against 4,846 cases the previous year while the 24&#215;7 Cyber Fraud Call Centre in the state was also successful in tracing and freezing Rs. 6.41 crores of cyber fraud amounts pertaining to 2,177 cases with a success rate of more than<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">18 percent, Mahanta said at a press conference here. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8221;This has been possible due to the prompt action on the cyber fraudsters, deactivating of SIMs and whatsapp accounts involved in cyber frauds, monitoring of the social media platforms 24 x 7 for unlawful posts and those against women and children.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Meanwhile, a total of 2,878 cases were registered under NDPS Act cases in 2022 as against 2,271 cases the previous year, he said.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Police arrested 4,691 drug traffickers, seized 112 kg of Heroin, 49,000 kg of Ganja, 52 lakh tablets, more than 21 lakh cough syrup bottles, 215 kgs of opium, among others in 2022.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Co-ordinated efforts in demand reduction, supply reduction and harm reduction are on with the help of all the stakeholders, he said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 NDPS Act cases are closely supervised and followed up with timely charge sheets with the conviction percentage of NDPS\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">cases was around 47 percent in 2022 and 26 habitual drug traffickers have been detained under the PITNDPS Act.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A total of 1,181 cases have been registered against cattle smuggling, 633 vehicles seized, 1,356 smugglers arrested and 12,402 cattle rescued.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The DGP claimed that Crime against Women has also drastically come down to 12,034 cases in 2022 as against 29,046 cases in 2021 and also against an annual average<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">of 27,240 cases during the period 2017- 2021.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8221;This is due to the setting up of Special Cells for Women in collaboration of TATA Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), coordinated approach by all stakeholders like the police, social welfare department, NGOs, labour department, health and education department and due to capacity building and sensitization programmes for the police&#8221;, he said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Crimes against children have come down to 4,306 as against 5,282 in the previous year.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The number of human trafficking cases have also come down to 96 cases as against 203 in the previous year.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moreover, \u00a0the crime rate in the state has now come down to 200 cases per lakh of population as against the previous 366 cases per lakh population while the number of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">cases reported have come down to 69,439 at the end of 2022 as against 1,33,239 at the end of 2021.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The case pendency has also drastically come down to 58,908 cases at the end of 2022 as against 95,994 cases in 2021 and more than a lakh cases at the end of 2020.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Further, the number of cases per Investigation Officer (IO) on an average has come down to 25 cases as against 52 cases at the end of 2021 while the charge sheet percentage has also gone up to 48 percent in the year 2022 as against 39 percent in the previous year.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The DGP said that the state police is increasingly using technology and forensics while several steps are being taken to use scientific aids in investigation and to\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">set up new Regional and Mobile Forensic Science Laboratories in various parts of the state along with upgradation of State Forensic Laboratory here. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The rate of cyber crime cases in Assam has declined to 1781 cases with an amount Rs 6.41 crore, attempted fraudulently to be withdrawn, successfully traced and frozen, Director General of Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said on Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Cyber crimes reported have come down 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