The Karnataka authorities Wednesday issued an order for the structure of a Cyber Command unit throughout the state police to completely sort out the burden of rising cyber crime instances.
The Cyber Command unit, which can operate underneath the management of the Director Normal of Police for Cybercrime and Narcotics throughout the Prison Investigation Division, will report on to the state house division as a substitute of the state police chief, in line with the federal government order.
Cybercrimes have now outnumbered conventional crimes like dacoity, theft, and different types of bodily theft. Final yr, Karnataka reported 52,000 cybercrimes, the very best amongst all of the states in South India, in line with authorities sources.
“There’s a have to create a separate Cyber Crimes Prevention Unit within the state to forestall cyber crimes successfully,” the federal government order states.
Beneath the initiative, the federal government has determined to redesignate 43 CEN (cyber, economics and narcotics) police stations and cyber crime police stations functioning underneath DGP, CID underneath the Cyber Crimes Prevention Unit. As many as 193 present police posts of various ranks have been redesignated to operate underneath the cyber command.
The CEN police stations have been authorised to provoke instances underneath the Karnataka State Excise Act, 1965 (Karnataka Act, 21 of 1966), the Lotteries Act, 1964, the Karnataka State Lottery Guidelines, 1999, Illegal Actions Prevention Act, 1967 (Central Act, 37 of 1967), Karnataka Management of Organized Crime Act, 2000 (Karnataka Act, 1 of 2002), and the Info Expertise Act, 2000.
They’ve additionally been authorised to register Indian Penal Code (IPC) offences underneath sections 420, 409, 467, 468, 471, 489 (A-E) the place the quantity concerned exceeds Rs 50 lakh and above and fund deposit frauds.
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“The Director Normal and Inspector Normal of Police has reviewed this proposal and regarded it applicable to ascertain a brand new Cyber Command Unit within the state with out creating any new posts, using the prevailing posts and with out incurring a lot monetary burden, so as to successfully forestall cyber crimes in Karnataka,” states the order.
The Cyber Command will likely be created by separating the submit of the DGP, Narcotics and Cyber Crime within the CID Division and the DGP, Cyber Command will operate underneath the Deputy Chief Secretary to the Authorities, Division of House Affairs, the order states. The present DGP Narcotics and Cyber Crime is Pronab Mohanty, a 1994-batch IPS officer.
Based on the federal government order, the DG Cyber Command would be the Chief Info Safety Officer of the state and can handle the Karnataka Cyber Safety Coverage, whereas a Multi Departmental Coordinating Committee (MDCC) created in March 2024 to handle instances of disinformation can even report back to the DG, Cyber Command.