16,552 cybercrime incidents in one-and-a-half yrs, U.P. house told

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday informed the state legislative assembly that 16,552 incidents of cybercrime had been reported in the state from January 2021 to July 2022.

Minister for parliamentary affairs Suresh Khanna gave this information while replying to a question of Samajwadi Party MLA Pankaj Malik during question hour in the state assembly. Khanna said 15,202 officers and employees had been imparted training for checking cybercrime up to now. He said the state government had added 16 new police stations to deal with cybercrime, adding that there were only two such police stations in Lucknow and NOIDA. He said with this, the state now had more police stations to deal with cybercrime.

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