**Executive Summary**
This document is a response to Unstarred Question No. 438 in Lok Sabha on December 2nd, 2025, concerning the rise in cybercrime cases. It provides data and information regarding cybercrimes in India. The response references statistical data compiled and published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and outlines measures taken by the government to address cybercrime.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Data on Cybercrimes:**
* The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) compiles and publishes statistical data on crimes in India, including cybercrimes, in its "Crime in India" publication.
* The latest report available is for the year 2023.
* Crime Head-wise and State/UT-wise details of cybercrime cases registered from 2014 to 2023 are provided in Annexure-I & II respectively.
* **Responsibilities of States/UTs and Central Government:**
* 'Police' and ‘Public Order’ are State subjects, with States/UTs primarily responsible for prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrimes.
* The Central Government supplements State/UT initiatives through advisories and financial assistance for capacity building of Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs).
* **Measures to Combat Cybercrimes:**
* The Central Government has taken steps to spread awareness, issue alerts/advisories, build capacity/train law enforcement personnel, and improve cyber forensic facilities.
* The "Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre" (I4C) was established in 2018 and attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2024.
* The "National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP)" (https://cybercrime.gov.in) was launched as part of the I4C to allow public reporting of cybercrimes, with a special focus on crimes against women and children.
* The 'Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System', under I4C, has been launched in 2021 for immediate reporting of financial frauds.
* A toll-free Helpline number '1930' has been operationalized to get assistance in lodging online cyber complaints.
* **Cyber Awareness Campaigns:**
* Various Ministries/Departments of the Government of India and State Governments undertake cyber awareness campaigns from time to time.
* Data is not maintained centrally as tackling cybercrimes is a collaborative effort.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder: Citizens**
* **Impact:** Access to a national portal (NCRP) to report cybercrime incidents, especially crimes against women and children. Access to a helpline to report financial fraud
* **Action Required:** Utilize the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (https://cybercrime.gov.in) to report cybercrime incidents.
**Stakeholder: State/UT Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs)**
* **Impact:** Responsible for handling FIRs and subsequent actions related to reported cybercrime incidents.
* **Action Required:** Handle FIRs and subsequent actions as per the law.
**Stakeholder: Central Government (Ministry of Home Affairs, etc.)**
* **Impact:** Responsible for supplementing the efforts of States/UTs, spreading awareness, providing financial assistance, and coordinating national-level initiatives through I4C and NCRP.
* **Action Required:** Continue to support and coordinate efforts to combat cybercrime, including running cyber awareness campaigns.
Key Entities Referenced
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB): Compiles and publishes statistical data on crimes, including cybercrimes, in India.
Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C): Scheme established to deal with cybercrimes in a comprehensive and coordinated manner.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA): Central ministry involved in addressing cybercrime issues.
Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System: System for immediate reporting of financial frauds under the I4C.
National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP): Portal launched as part of the I4C to enable public to report cyber crimes.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 438
TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 2ND DECEMBER, 2025/ AGRAHAYANA 11, 1947
(SAKA)
RISE IN CYBERCRIME CASES
438. MR PATHAN YUSUF:
Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government is aware of the steep rise in cybercrime
cases, especially financial and identity-related frauds, across the country;
(b) if so, the number of such cases reported since 2014, State/UT and
year-wise;
(c) the amount (in Rs.) lost to cybercrime since 2014 and the amount
recovered till date yearwise; and
(d) the amount (in Rs.) spent by the Government on cybercrime awareness
campaigns since the year 2014, year-wise?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
(SHRI BANDI SANJAY KUMAR)
(a) to (d): 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, Crime Head-wise & State/UT wise details of cases
registered under cyber crimes (involving communication devices as
medium/target) during the period from 2014 to 2023 are at the Annexure-I
& II respectively.-2-
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‘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 crimethrough their Law Enforcement Agencies
(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.
To strengthen the mechanism to deal with cyber crimes in a
comprehensive and coordinated manner, the Central Government has
taken steps for spreading awareness about cyber crimes, issuance
of alerts/ advisories, capacity building/training of law enforcement
personnel/ prosecutors/judicial officers, improving cyber forensic
facilities, etc. The Government has established the ‘Indian Cyber Crime
Coordination Centre’ (I4C) as scheme in the year 2018 and made as an
attached office of Ministry of Home Affairs in the year 2024 to deal with
all types of cyber crime 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-3-
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enable public to report incidents pertaining to all types of cyber crimes,
with special focus on cyber crimes against women and children. Cyber
crime incidents reported on this portal, their conversion into FIRs and
subsequent action thereon are handled by the State/UT Law Enforcement
Agencies concerned as per the provisions of the law.
The ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management
System’, under I4C, has been launched in year 2021 for immediate
reporting of financial frauds and to stop siphoning off funds by the
fraudsters. So far, financial amount of more than Rs. 7,130 Crore has been
saved in more than 23.02 lakh complaints. A toll-free Helpline number
‘1930’ has been operationalized to get assistance in lodging online cyber
complaints.
The various Ministries/ Departments of Government of India like
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of Electronics & Information
Technology, Department of Telecommincation, Reserve Bank of India etc.
and State Governments undertake cyber awareness campaigns from time
to time. As the effort to tackle financial and other crimes including cyber
crimes is a whole government endeavour including different agencies, the
data is not maintained centrally.
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L.S. .US. Q. NO. 438 FOR 02.12.2025
Crime Heads-wise Cases Registered) under Cyber Crimes during 2014-2023
SL Crime Heads 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
1 Tampering computer source documents 89 88 78 233 257 173 338 55 65 71
2 Computer Related Offences 5548 6567 6818 10108 14141 23734 21926 19915 23894 35329
3 Cyber Terrorism 5 13 12 13 21 12 26 15 12 11
Publication/transmission of obscene / sexually explicit act in
4
electronic form 758 816 957 1768 3076 4203 6308 6598 6896 7893
5 Interception or Monitoring or decryption of Information 2 0 0 4 6 9 7 2 1 1
Un-authorized access/attempt to access to protected computer
6
system 0 8 0 2 0 2 2 3 1 1
7 Abetment to Commit Offences 0 1 0 1 7 4 0
8 Attempt to Commit Offences 4 13 14 18 5 18 11
9 Other Sections of IT Act 799 553 748 1503 980 2699 1017 827 1017 920
A Total Offences under I.T. Act 7201 8045 8613 13635 18495 30846 29643 27427 31908 44237
10 Abetment of Suicide (Online) 0 7 7 10 10 24 30
11 Cyber Stalking/Bullying of Women/Children 542 739 771 872 1176 1471 1305
12 Data theft 55 84 86 307 106 282 98 170 97 113
13 Fraud 3466 3353 6229 10395 14007 17470 19466
14 Cheating 1115 2255 2329 1896 2051 3367 4480 6343 10509 16943
15 Forgery 63 45 81 99 260 511 582 198 224 444
16 Defamation/Morphing 12 18 19 51 31 61 36
17 Fake Profile 86 78 85 149 123 157 225
18 Counterfeiting 10 12 10 1 2 5 9 2 2 0
19 Cyber Blackmailing/Threatening 311 223 362 303 689 696 689
20 Fake News on Social Media 170 97 188 578 179 230 209
21 Other Offences 1029 1026 1012 1086 1713 1974 2674 2456 2857 2389
B Total Offences under IPC 2272 3422 3518 7976 8647 13800 20201 25384 33798 41849
22 Gambling Act (Online Gambling) 45 20 22 63 27 37 87
23 Lotteries Act (Online Lotteries) 11 2 9 26 4 6 0
24 Copy Right Act 118 113 181 89 62 34 49 32 27 23
25 Trade Marks Act 1 0 2 11 0 1 5 1 14 1
26 Other SLL Crimes 30 12 3 29 22 23 48 99 103 223
C Total Offences under SLL 149 125 186 185 106 89 191 163 187 334
Total Cyber Crimes 9622 11592 12317 21796 27248 44735 50035 52974 65893 86420
Source: ‘Crime in India’ published by NCRB.ANNEXURE-II
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State/UT-wise Cases Registered under Cyber Crimes during 2014-2023
SL State/UT 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
1 Andhra Pradesh 282 536 616 931 1207 1886 1899 1875 2341 2341
2 Arunachal Pradesh 18 6 4 1 7 8 30 47 14 24
3 Assam 379 483 696 1120 2022 2231 3530 4846 1733 909
4 Bihar 114 242 309 433 374 1050 1512 1413 1621 4450
5 Chhattisgarh 123 103 90 171 139 175 297 352 439 473
6 Goa 62 17 31 13 29 15 40 36 90 86
7 Gujarat 227 242 362 458 702 784 1283 1536 1417 1995
8 Haryana 151 224 401 504 418 564 656 622 681 751
9 Himachal Pradesh 38 50 31 56 69 76 98 70 77 127
10 Jharkhand 93 180 259 720 930 1095 1204 953 967 1079
11 Karnataka 1020 1447 1101 3174 5839 12020 10741 8136 12556 21889
12 Kerala 450 290 283 320 340 307 426 626 773 3295
13 Madhya Pradesh 289 231 258 490 740 602 699 589 826 685
14 Maharashtra 1879 2195 2380 3604 3511 4967 5496 5562 8249 8103
15 Manipur 13 6 11 74 29 4 79 67 18 3
16 Meghalaya 60 56 39 39 74 89 142 107 75 64
17 Mizoram 22 8 1 10 6 8 13 30 1 31
18 Nagaland 0 0 2 0 2 2 8 8 4 2
19 Odisha 124 386 317 824 843 1485 1931 2037 1983 2348
20 Punjab 226 149 102 176 239 243 378 551 697 511
21 Rajasthan 697 949 941 1304 1104 1762 1354 1504 1833 2435
22 Sikkim 4 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 26 12
23 Tamil Nadu 172 142 144 228 295 385 782 1076 2082 4121
24 Telangana 703 687 593 1209 1205 2691 5024 10303 15297 18236
25 Tripura 5 13 8 7 20 20 34 24 30 36
26 Uttar Pradesh 1737 2208 2639 4971 6280 11416 11097 8829 10117 10794
27 Uttarakhand 42 48 62 124 171 100 243 718 559 494
28 West Bengal 355 398 478 568 335 524 712 513 401 309
TOTAL STATE(S) 9285 11297 12159 21530 26931 44511 49708 52430 64907 85603
29 A&N Islands 13 6 3 3 7 2 5 8 28 47
30 Chandigarh 55 77 26 32 30 23 17 15 27 23
31 D&N Haveli and Daman & Diu 4 1 1 1 0 3 3 5 5 6
32 Delhi 226 177 98 162 189 115 168 356 685 407
33 Jammu & Kashmir 37 34 28 63 73 73 120 154 173 185
34 Ladakh 1 5 3 1
35 Lakshadweep 1 0 0 0 4 4 3 1 1 1
36 Puducherry 1 0 2 5 14 4 10 0 64 147
TOTAL UT(S) 337 295 158 266 317 224 327 544 986 817
TOTAL (ALL INDIA) 9622 11592 12317 21796 27248 44735 50035 52974 65893 86420
Source: ‘Crime in India’ published by NCRB.
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