Telangana atop rogue’s gallery with 105% spurt in cyber crime

HYDERABAD: With a 105% increase in cyber crime cases, Telangana ranked first in the country for overall cyber crime cases compared to other states and Union territories in 2021, according to the latest ‘Crime in India-2021’ report released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Sunday.
NCRB data has revealed that Telangana was the only state to have clocked 10,000-plus cyber crime (10,303) cases compared to other states.
It was for the second time the state had witnessed a huge spike in cyber crime cases as it saw an 86% (5,024 cases) rise in 2020 compared to 2019. A majority (7,003) of the cyber crimes were pertaining to fraud ‘involving communication devices as a medium’.