Parliament Question: Cyber frauds in the country

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1345 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 11TH FEBRUARY, 2026/ MAGHA 22, 1947 (SAKA) CYBER FRAUDS IN THE COUNTRY 1345. SHRI GOLLA BABURAO: Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state: (a) whether countrymen lost ₹53,000 crores to fraud, cheating cases in last five years as per Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (14C); (b) if so, details thereof; (c) whether it is a fact that number of complaints appears to be much less in 2025 when compared to 69.44 lakhs complaints received in 2022, but amount lost is much more; (d) the views of Government; (e) details of leading States where there are more instances of cyber crime instances reported; and (f) what remedial measures being taken by Government to address the cyber crime in coordination with the States? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI BANDI SANJAY KUMAR) (a) to (f): ‘Police’ and ‘Public Order’ are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. The States/UTs are primarily responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of crimes including cyber fraud through their Law Enforcement Agencies-2- R.S.US.Q.NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 (LEAs). The Central Government supplements the initiatives of the States/UTs through advisories and financial assistance under various schemes for capacity building of their LEAs. The Ministry of Home Affairs has set up the ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ (I4C) as an attached office to deal with all types of cyber crimes in the country, in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. The ‘National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal’ (NCRP) (https://cybercrime.gov.in) has been launched, as a part of the I4C, to enable public to report incidents pertaining to all types of cyber crimes, with special focus on cyber crimes against women and children. The ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System’ (CFCFRMS), under I4C, has been launched in year 2021 for immediate reporting of financial frauds and to stop siphoning off funds by the fraudsters. As per CFCFRMS operated by I4C, till 31.12.2025, financial amount of more than Rs. 8,189 Crore has been saved in more than 23.61 lakh complaints. A toll-free Helpline number ‘1930’ has been operationalized to get assistance in lodging online cyber complaints. As per NCRP & CFCFRMS operated by I4C, total amount reported by citizens due to cyber frauds from the year 2021 to 2025 are as under:-3- R.S.US.Q.NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 Year Number of financial frauds Amount Reported complaints on NCRP (₹ In Crore) 2021 2,62,846 551 2022 6,94,446 2290 2023 13,10,357 7465 2024 19,18,835 22848 2025 24,02,579 22495 Note: Data is dynamic in nature. Cyber crime incidents reported on National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, their conversion into FIRs and subsequent action i.e. filing of chargesheets, arrest and resolution of complaints, thereon are handled by the State/UT Law Enforcement Agencies concerned as per the provisions of the law. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) compiles and publishes the statistical data on crimes in its publication “Crime in India”. The latest published report is for the year 2023. As per the data published by the NCRB, State/UT wise details of cases registered under cyber crimes (involving communication devices as medium/target) during the year 2023 are at the Annexure. To strengthen the mechanism to deal with cyber crimes in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, the Central Government has taken steps which, inter-alia, include the following:-4- R.S.US.Q.NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 i. A State of the Art, Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre (CFMC) has been established at I4C where representatives of major banks, Financial Intermediaries, Payment Aggregators, Telecom Service Providers, IT Intermediaries and representatives of States/UTs Law Enforcement Agency are working together for immediate action and seamless cooperation to tackle cybercrime. ii. Till 31.12.2025, more than 12.21 lakhs SIM cards and 3.03 lakhs IMEIs as reported by Police authorities have been blocked by Government of India. iii. I4C, MHA is regularly organising ‘State Connect’, ‘Thana Connect’ and Peer learning session to share best practices, enhance capacity building, etc. iv. The state of the art National-Digital Investigation Support Centre (previously known as National Cyber Forensic (Investigation) Laboratory {NCFL(I)}) has been established, as a part of the I4C, at New Delhi (on 18.02.2019) and at Assam (on 29.08.2025) to provide early stage cyber forensic assistance to Investigating Officers (IOs) of State/UT Police. Till 31.12.2025, National-Digital Investigation Support Centre, New Delhi has provided its services to State/UT LEAs in more than 13,299 cases pertaining to cyber crimes.-5- R.S.US.Q.NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 v. The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform, namely ‘CyTrain’ portal has been developed under I4C, for capacity building of police officers/judicial officers through online course on critical aspects of cyber crime investigation, forensics, prosecution etc. Till 31.12.2025, more than 1,47,665 police officers/judicial officers from States/UTs are registered and more than 1,34,423 Certificates issued through the portal. vi. ‘Sahyog’ Portal has been launched to expedite the process of sending notices to IT intermediaries by the Appropriate Government or its agency under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 79 of the IT Act, 2000 to facilitate the removal or disabling of access to any information, data or communication link being used to commit an unlawful act. vii. A Suspect Registry of identifiers of cyber criminals has been launched by I4C on 10.09.2024 in collaboration with Banks/Financial Institutions. Till 31.12.2025, more than 21.65 lakh suspect identifier data received from Banks and 26.48 lakh Layer 1 mule accounts have been shared with the participating entities of Suspect Registry and declined transactions worth Rs. 9055.27 crores.-6- R.S.US.Q.NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 viii. Seven Joint Cyber Coordination Teams (JCCTs) have been constituted for Mewat, Jamtara, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Vishakhapatnam, and Guwahati under I4C covering the whole country based upon cyber crime hotspots/ areas having multi jurisdictional issues by onboarding States/UTs to enhance the coordination framework among the Law Enforcement Agencies of the States/UTs. ix. Samanvaya Platform has been made operational to serve as an Management Information System (MIS) platform, data repository and a coordination platform for LEAs for cybercrime data sharing and analytics. It provides analytics based interstate linkages of crimes and criminals, involved in cybercrime complaints in various States/UTs. The module ‘Pratibimb’ maps locations of criminals and crime infrastructure on a map to give visibility to jurisdictional officers. The module also facilitates seeking and receiving of techno-legal assistance by Law Enforcement Agencies from I4C and other SMEs. It has lead to arrest of more than 20,853 accused and more than 1,35,074 Cyber Investigation assistance request. *****ANNEXURE R.S. USQ. NO. 1345 FOR 11.02.2026 State/UT-wise Cases Registered under Cyber Crimes during the year 2023 SL State/UT 2023 1 Andhra Pradesh 2341 2 Arunachal Pradesh 24 3 Assam 909 4 Bihar 4450 5 Chhattisgarh 473 6 Goa 86 7 Gujarat 1995 8 Haryana 751 9 Himachal Pradesh 127 10 Jharkhand 1079 11 Karnataka 21889 12 Kerala 3295 13 Madhya Pradesh 685 14 Maharashtra 8103 15 Manipur 3 16 Meghalaya 64 17 Mizoram 31 18 Nagaland 2 19 Odisha 2348 20 Punjab 511 21 Rajasthan 2435 22 Sikkim 12 23 Tamil Nadu 4121 24 Telangana 18236 25 Tripura 36 26 Uttar Pradesh 10794 27 Uttarakhand 494 28 West Bengal 309 TOTAL STATE(S) 85603 29 A&N Islands 47 30 Chandigarh 23 31 D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu 6 32 Delhi 407 33 Jammu & Kashmir 185 34 Ladakh 1 35 Lakshadweep 1 36 Puducherry 147 TOTAL UT(S) 817 TOTAL (ALL INDIA) 86420 Source: ‘Crime in India’ published by NCRB.