The Cyber Cell of Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) informed the Madras High Court Bench here on Wednesday that though 17,060 complaints related to cyber crime were received across the State in the last 10 years, only 737 of them were registered.
The submission was made before Justice N. Kirubakaran who had sought the details early this month while hearing a petition filed by a married woman from Tuticorin.
Direction soughtThe petitioner had sought a direction to the police to register a case against her former lover for posting her obscene photographs on the Internet. Submitting statistics related to cyber crimes since 2004, Superintendent of Police (Cyber Cell) M.V. Jaya Gowri said of the total number of complaints received in connection with Internet crimes, 2,556 were related to offences committed against women though only 182 got registered.
The data showed that the complaints had been increasing steadily since 2004 when only 341 complaints were received by cyber crime cells across the State to 467 in 2005, 554 in 2006, 581 in 2007, 539 in 2008, 699 in 2009, 1,359 in 2010, 2,165 in 2011, 3,309 in 2012 and 4,066 in 2013.
The corresponding figures with respect to complaints connected with cyber crimes against women were 76 in 2004, 98 in 2005, 103 in 2006, 97 in 2007, 100 in 2008, 154 in 2009, 204 in 2010, 278 in 2011, 501 in 2012, 683 in 2013 and 262 until August 2014.
Ms. Gowri also pointed out that the number of cases registered by the police for investigation had increased from a miniscule number of 15 in 2004 to 139 in 2013.
Consequently, the number of cases registered in connection with offences against women had risen from just four in 2004 to 40 in 2013.
