The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom requested the state authorities on Wednesday to facilitate the combination of cybercrime complaints acquired on the 1930 nationwide cybercrime helpline with the functioning of a Cyber Command Centre created completely to sort out the state’s ever-growing burden of cybercrime instances.
A single-judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna mentioned the Cyber Command Centre (CCC) created throughout the Karnataka police drive underneath the management of a director-general of police can’t operate in isolation from instances reported on the 1930 cyber crime helpline.
“It’s crucial that 1930 helpline be built-in with the Police IT software that’s subsisting and all this to be part of the CCC,” Justice Nagaprasanna famous in the middle of an order in a case involving the alleged theft of software program codes by an worker of a personal agency concerned in constructing drones.
The excessive court docket has been trying to streamline cybercrime investigations, particularly in Bengaluru and Karnataka at massive, by working with an amicus curiae— Extra Public Prosecutor B N Jagadeesh—to know the problems concerned in coping with cybercrimes which have damaged crime information in Karnataka with fewer options and convictions.
“Yet one more facet that’s obtrusive is that the complaints of cyber crimes are reported to the 1930 helpline. The helpline 1930, presently the hub towards fraud, should be built-in throughout the framework of the CCC,” Justice Nagaprasanna mentioned.
The excessive court docket mentioned the current system of receiving complaints on the cyber helpline entails coordinating with financial institution officers to cease the outflow of funds from the accounts of fraudsters.
“All this occurs with out a doc, as no crime is registered. Subsequently, it’s crucial for the helpline 1930 and the dialog therein to be recorded as part of the police/info know-how system and, if crucial, draw up a zero FIR towards every of them,” the court docket noticed.
‘Solely CEN police stations ought to deal with cybercrime’
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The excessive court docket additionally referred to as for all cybercrime instances within the state to be dealt with by the 43 CEN police stations that may come underneath the purview of the CCC and to not depart cybercrime instances with different police stations, that are overburdened with conventional policing work.
“The jurisdictional police stations are generally ill-equipped to research cybercrimes. Subsequently, the CCC is envisaged. It’s crucial that there ought to be integration of the system of jurisdictional police stations and the CCC for each offence i.e., a cybercrime, to be introduced underneath the umbrella of the Command Centre,” the court docket said.
“If all of what’s aforesaid isn’t complied, in at present’s world, the place crimes are faceless, investigations would change into baseless,” the excessive court docket mentioned. The officers posted to the Cyber Command Centre “should not be steadily moved out”, it added.
The variety of cybercrimes reported within the state underneath the Data Expertise Act was solely 8,396 in 2021 however has grown to 30,000 in 2025, the excessive court docket identified.
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“The graph has climbed steeply, a chilling reminder of the exponential development of cybercrime. Thus, the CCC isn’t an choice, however an crucial born of necessity,” it mentioned.
The bench welcomed a September 2 order of the Karnataka Authorities for superintendents of police to behave as hyperlink officers to oversee cybercrime police stations and “report back to the DG, Cyber Command, just for the capabilities associated to cybercrime police stations”.
The federal government order says that instances underneath the IT Act, in addition to these associated to Aadhaar and instances of fraud and dishonest exceeding Rs 50 lakh, should be mandatorily registered in cybercrime police stations. It additional says that “the cybercrime laboratory situated within the CID premises has been transferred to the Cyber Command Centre”.
Cyber Command Centre not but useful
Although the Authorities issued an order on April 9 for the structure of a Cyber Command Centre throughout the police drive to completely sort out the burden of rising cybercrime instances within the state, together with in Bengaluru, the unit is but to change into useful.
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The Cyber Command Centre was initially created to operate underneath the management of the DGP for cybercrime and narcotics throughout the Prison Investigation Division, who would report on to the house division, as an alternative of the state police chief. The proposed reporting hierarchy had created consternation within the police.
Cybercrimes had surpassed crimes akin to dacoity, theft, and different varieties of thefts by way of their incidence in Karnataka, with 52,000 instances reported final 12 months. That is the best for the states of South India, the Authorities said whereas ordering the creation of the Cyber Command Centre.