The city police registered 3,960 complaints of cybercrime over the past 11 months, but were able to crack less than six per cent of the cases, official data shows. Deputy Commissioner of Police (cyber crime) Balsing Rajput admitted that the cyber unit is not equipped to handle the cases where criminals use modern technology. “Also, culprits are operating out of other cities and states. We are trying our best to solve the cases,” he added. Police sources pointed out that cyber crime has spread its wings across India and the incidents are rising.

Mumbai police’s cyber unit has so far been able to arrest 395 accused, including foreign nationals. The fraud in the cases registered so far were related to KYC updates, job, admission, investment, matrimonial, online purchase, fake website, cryptocurrency fraud, loan shark apps, credit card updates, payments of electricity bills, blackmailing, sextortion, etc.