Chandigarh: Deal with cyber crime at police station level, set up desks, says DGP

In an attempt to ease the burden of Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC), which deals in thousands of complaints, DGP Praveer Ranjan instructed the personnel at police station level to redress at least seven different natures of cyber crimes on their own on Tuesday. Ranjan instructed the SHOs to establish cyber desks at their respective police stations.

The seven different natures of cyber crimes include online cheating through ATM/debit/credit cards, /cloning/changing of ATM cards, cheating on the pretext of installation of mobile towers, harassment/abuse/threatening through Whatsapp messages, emails, cheating through pretext of providing jobs/visas/loans, cheating through uploading numbers on Google, missing of mobile phones/laptops and cheating on the pretext of LIC policies/insurance policies.