20 June 2013

Mumbai police for second cyber crime station

The Mumbai police have asked the state government to set up a second cyber crime police station in the city after the latest National Crime Records Bureau report showed a worrying three-fold increase in online offences here....
.... the police wrote to the government last week proposing the creation of a new cyber crime police station in the suburbs along the lines of the one in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC)....
....Officers trained in fighting online crimes and currently posted in local police stations will be chosen for the new station....
... Mumbai has been wracked by a series of major online frauds in the recent past. In January, two brothers hacked into the current account of a Mulund-based cosmetic firm's director and stole Rs 1 crore....
.. in May  cyber criminals hacked a current account of the RPG Group of companies and siphoned off Rs 2.41 crore in three hours..
...growing crime numbers in the city reflect the swelling figures in the state...

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