According to the National Crime Records Bureau, there is a 400 per cent increase in cybercrime against children in 2020 in comparison to the previous year, with a majority of them related to publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit acts. Today’s children and teens are growing up in a digitally connected […]
Karimnagar: Though the overall crime rate in Karimnagar police commissionerate limits declined in 2021, cybercrime has become a big problem for the cops. Besides online banking fraud, cheating in the name of OTP, OLX and harassing women and students on Facebook and Whatsapp have increased. Fraudsters from Jamtara of Jharkhand and Bharatpur of Rajasthan have […]
Hyderabad: Social media is a very powerful means of freedom of speech and expression. It has become a voice for the voiceless and has been an incredible tool for empowering women to speak, express and promote their ideas that benefit the larger society. At the same time, it’s a place for sexist, racist, homophobic, and […]
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police booked 3,854 cases against cyber fraudsters this year as against 1,212 the previous year. A total of 164 persons were arrested by the police for their involvement in the offences. Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Raveendra said cybercrime cases were witnessing an increase in view of people switching over to online transactions […]
Hyderabad: The overall crime rate in the city dipped by around 11. 5 per cent in 2021 with the police registering 20,012 cases this year, as against 22,641 cases last year. In 2019, the total number of cases booked stood at 25,187. However, while the overall crime rate went down, there has been a sharp […]
Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police on Tuesday caught a man on charges of harassing a former woman colleague on Instagram. The arrested person was G.Dileep Kumar (27), a private employee from Srinagar Colony in Nalgonda district. Police said Dileep and the victim worked together for a private company in Hyderabad earlier. Dileep had proposed to […]
