Cybercrime

Cybercrime: 509 cases in Bangalore, no conviction yet

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        BANGALORE:   Thirteen years, 509 cases and 144 charge sheets. But not a single conviction. That's the track record of the cybercrime cell of the state's criminal investigation department (CID).

With the CID filing a chargesheet in against ADGP P Ravindranath for allegedly taking objectionable photos of a woman at a coffee joint, the pertinent question that arises is: Will Ravindranath break the record of the cybercrime cell and be convicted?

Documents with STOI reveal that since its inception in 2001, the cybercrime cell has investigated 509 cases and filed chargesheets in 144 of them - none of them ending in conviction. Of the 509, 181 cases were closed under 'C reported' (No evidence found) category while 85 have been B reported (Faulty complaint).

Reacting on the zero conviction, a senior police officer told STOI that the charge sheet weakens when court asks for the accused's presence at the time of offence. "In many hacking and phishing cases, we establish the source; that is the accused's computer. But whether the accused was there at the time of offence, is a little hard to establish and this helps the accused in walking out free," he said.