Rs 58.97 lakh lost in online frauds recovered by cyber police

THE FIVE newly inaugurated cyber-police stations in January this year has recovered Rs 58.97 lakh out of the Rs 84.39 lakh lost to cyberfrauds in 36 cases till June. In most of these cases, the complainant had approached the police stations within a span of one to two hours termed as the “golden hour”.

To tackle the ever-increasing cyber-crime, the Mumbai Police has set up a cyber-police station for each of the five regions-south, central, east, west and north. The figure of recovered amount assumes significance because the detection rate for cybercrimes is very poor.

In 2020 till June, Mumbai Police lodged 1,097 cyber-crime cases but only 80 were detected (7.29% detection) while this year till June, 1,277 cases were registered and 136 were detected (10.64%).