Malayalis stay a step ahead when it comes to manipulating the cyber space for personal revenge or settling scores going by the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2014.
As per the report, Kerala tops the list on that count with 66 such cases of cyber crimes in a list of 36 State and Union Territories. Uttar Pradesh, which has almost six times more the population of Kerala, comes a distant second with 28 cases.
In 16 cases, the State sits at a joint second with Punjab in terms of crimes committed by those hitting the cyber world for emotional motives like anger, revenge etc. while it is ranked third in terms of cyber crimes aimed at insulting the modesty of women with 57 cases.
NCRB report puts Kerala at sixth place in terms of total number of cyber crime cases, which has risen from 383 to 450 in 2014, registering a growth of 17.50 per cent. The State accounts for 4.70 per cent of the 9,622 cyber crime cases reported from across the country - a rise of 69 per cent.
The number of persons arrested for cyber crimes in the State has increased by 67.50 per cent from 169 to 283 in 2014. Kerala sits at seventh just behind Assam where the number of persons arrested has registered a staggering growth of 17,450 per cent.
Notwithstanding the row over the piracy of the recent blockbuster Malayalam film Premam , only three cases have been registered in the State for piracy last year. However, the State is ranked sixth in terms of incidence of computer-related offences under Section 66 and Section 66A to E with 229 cases registered under Section 66A alone, which has since been struck down by the apex court.
