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Cyber Crimes
By PIB Delhi
The Information Technology Act, 2000 has provisions for dealing with various types of cybercrimes. Sections 43, 43A, 66, 66B, 66C, 66D, 66E, 66F, 67, 67A, 67B, 71, 72, 72A, 73 and 74 provides punishment/penalty for various cyber crimes.
Sections 66E, 67, 67A specifically deal with cybercrime related to pornography. Section 67B provides punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit actin electronic form.
Sections 13 to Section 15 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act also provide for stringent punishment provisions against child pornography.
As per information provided by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) the total number of cases registered under Section 67 & Section 67A of IT Act (Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form and Publishing or transmitting of material containingsexually explicit act in electronic form) and Section 67B of IT Act (Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act in electronic form), State/UT-wise including Delhi for the year 2016, is at Annexure-I.
The NCRB started collecting data on cyber crime against women and children since 2017. The State/UT-wise details of the number of cases registered under Cyber-crimes (involving computer as medium/target) for crime against women and childrenis at Annexure-II and Annexure-III respectively.
ANNEXURE-IL State/UT Publishing or Transmitting Obscene Material in Electronic form and Publishing or Transmitting of Material containing Sexually Explicit Act in Electronic form (Section 67 & 67A of IT Act) Publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in Sexually explicit act in electronic form (Sec. 67B of IT Act) CR CR 1 Andhra Pradesh 7 0 2 Arunachal Pradesh 0 0 3 Assam 114 0 4 Bihar 9 0 5 Chhattisgarh 17 0 6 Goa 1 0 7 Gujarat 14 1 8 Haryana 29 0 9 Himachal Pradesh 4 0 10 Jammu & Kashmir 0 1 11 Jharkhand 1 0 12 Karnataka 70 2 13 Kerala 42 1 14 Madhya Pradesh 36 0 15 Maharashtra 83 3 16 Manipur 0 0 17 Meghalaya 2 0 18 Mizoram 0 0 19 Nagaland 0 0 20 Odisha 7 0 21 Punjab 26 0 22 Rajasthan 43 3 23 Sikkim 0 0 24 Tamil Nadu 27 0 25 Telangana 20 0 26 Tripura 1 0 27 Uttar Pradesh 277 5 28 Uttarakhand 14 0 29 West Bengal 64 0 TOTAL STATE(S) 908 16 30 A&N Islands 2 0 31 Chandigarh 4 0 32 D&N Haveli 1 0 33 Daman & Diu 0 0 34 Delhi 15 1 35 Lakshadweep 0 0 36 Puducherry 0 0 TOTAL UT(S) 22 1 TOTAL (ALL INDIA) 930 17 Source: Crime in India
ANNEXURE-IISL State/UT 2017 2018 Cases Reported Cases Reported 1 Andhra Pradesh 173 217 2 Arunachal Pradesh 0 1 3 Assam 379 670 4 Bihar 36 14 5 Chhattisgarh 89 64 6 Goa 9 21 7 Gujarat 94 184 8 Haryana 79 112 9 Himachal Pradesh 30 52 10 Jammu & Kashmir 13 23 11 Jharkhand 26 13 12 Karnataka 729 1374 13 Kerala 126 160 14 Madhya Pradesh 192 276 15 Maharashtra 1119 1262 16 Manipur 27 9 17 Meghalaya 6 32 18 Mizoram 4 4 19 Nagaland 0 2 20 Odisha 62 228 21 Punjab 61 97 22 Rajasthan 89 116 23 Sikkim 0 1 24 Tamil Nadu 53 77 25 Telangana 196 336 26 Tripura 1 5 27 Uttar Pradesh 265 340 28 Uttarakhand 30 78 29 West Bengal 270 170 TOTAL STATE(S) 4158 5938 30 A&N Islands 2 5 31 Chandigarh 5 5 32 D&N Haveli 1 0 33 Daman & Diu 0 0 34 Delhi 76 79 35 Lakshadweep 0 3 36 Puducherry 0 0 TOTAL UT(S) 84 92 TOTAL (ALL INDIA) 4242 6030 Source: Crime in India Note: Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim for the year 2018
ANNEXURE-IIISL State/UT 2017 2018 Cases Reported Cases Reported 1 Andhra Pradesh 1 12 2 Arunachal Pradesh 0 0 3 Assam 1 9 4 Bihar 0 0 5 Chhattisgarh 4 7 6 Goa 2 2 7 Gujarat 4 12 8 Haryana 0 1 9 Himachal Pradesh 1 2 10 Jammu & Kashmir 1 0 11 Jharkhand 0 0 12 Karnataka 0 25 13 Kerala 0 25 14 Madhya Pradesh 5 15 15 Maharashtra 27 57 16 Manipur 2 0 17 Meghalaya 0 1 18 Mizoram 0 0 19 Nagaland 0 0 20 Odisha 0 7 21 Punjab 4 5 22 Rajasthan 6 2 23 Sikkim 0 1 24 Tamil Nadu 3 5 25 Telangana 0 2 26 Tripura 0 1 27 Uttar Pradesh 3 27 28 Uttarakhand 0 2 29 West Bengal 19 5 TOTAL STATE(S) 83 225 30 A&N Islands 0 1 31 Chandigarh 0 0 32 D&N Haveli 0 0 33 Daman & Diu 0 0 34 Delhi 5 6 35 Lakshadweep 0 0 36 Puducherry 0 0 TOTAL UT(S) 5 7 TOTAL (ALL INDIA) 88 232 Source: Crime in India Note: Clarifications are pending from West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim for the year 2018
This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
