Bengaluru is India’s Cyber crime Capital
Bengaluru registered the most number of cybercrime cases in 2018. The country’s technology capital saw a whopping 5,035 FIRs registered at the lone cybercrime police station in the city. As per a written reply in the Maharashtra Assembly by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, 2,945 cases were registered in the state till September 2018 and most of them were in Mumbai. In Delhi, in 2017, as per the Delhi police, only 84 FIRs were registered at the cyber crime cell. Until April 2016, 110 complaints were lodged, but only 26 FIRs were registered. In Chennai, as per reports, 5,703 complaints have been received by the cyber crime cell in the past five years.
Source: Economic Times: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/bengaluru-is-indias-cybercrime-capital/articleshow/67769776.cms
