Between January 1, 2020, and May 15, 2023, Gujaratis made a total of 1.59 lakh applications related to cybercrime on theNational Cyber Crime Reporting Portal(NCCRP) or helpline number 1930. It comes to 5,585 applications per month on an Average, 186 applications per day and average one application every 7.5 minutes!
Gujarat was among the nine states that recorded more than 1 lakh applications related to cybercrime during the said period, indicated data by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The data was reported recently in an NCRB response to an RTI application filed by Jeetendra Ghadge, a Girgaon-based activist. Ghadge had sought details on the Percentage of applications related to cybercrime converted into FIRs by Police. In all, the national ratio was found to be 1.9% as 43,022 FIRs were filed based on 22.57 lakh applications. In comparison, Gujarat’s applications-to-FIR ratio was found to be less than half at 0.8% – the state police recorded 1,233 FIRs out of the 1.59 lakh applications.