MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(DR. SHAKEEL AHMAD)
(a): Yes, Sir.
(b): The number of online cyber crimes registered by CBI and by
the National Crimes Record Bureau for the year 2003 are as
follows:
No. of online cases registered by CBI : 26 No. of cyber crimes cases registered under the IT Act (in various States) : 56 No. of cyber crime cases registered under the IPC Section (in various States) : 348
(c),(d) and
(e): In some of the cases involvement of
international racket has come to the notice of CBI. Chargesheets
have been filed.
(f): The Government has conducted several awareness and training
programmes on cyber crimes for Law Enforcement Agencies including
those on the use of Cyber Forensics Software packages and ethe
associated procedure with it to collect digital evidence from the
scene of crime. Speical training programmes have also been
conducted for Judiciary to train them on the Techno-legal aspects
of cyber crimes and on the analysis of digital evidence presented
to them.
Moreover, a number of steps have been taken by the Government to
fight cyber crimes. It is a coordinated effort on the part of
several agencies in the Ministry of Home Affairs and in the
Ministry of Communications and Information technology on an on
going basis. The fight against cyber crimes involves Law
Enforcement Agencies such as the Central
Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence Bureau, State Police
organizations and other specialized organizations such as the
National Police academy and the Indian Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-In). CERT-In has a role in develping
appropriate Security Guidelines and other best practices to
advise the Systems Administrators of computer systems and
networks all over the country to implement them so as to avoid
the systems from being attacked by the hackers and other
criminals. In the event of systems being attacked, CERT-In helps
the victim organizations recover their systems from the computer
security incidents so as to make them operational at the
earliest. Cyber Forensics is an emerging discipline which8 helps
the Law Enforcement organizations collect evidence from the scene
of crime. The legal framework for fighting cyber crimes is a
part of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Central Bureau of
Investigation and other police organizations have set up Cyber
Crime Cells with police officers who have been specially trained
in cyber forensics and also on IT security matters.
