Cyber crime is increasing day-by-day. Online banking and trading fraud, credit-card frauds, sale of illegal articles , fake profiles on the social networking websites, e-mail spoofing and online migratory schemes are among the most common e-complaints.
The Chandigarh police has set up a hi-tech Cyber Crime Investigation Cell to tackle these internet related crimes.
The hi-tech Cyber Crime Cell that has been set up by the Chandigarh police in association with Nasscom and Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh was inaugurated by Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd) S F Rodrigues.
General Rodrigues emphasised the need of strengthening the linkages of this center with a national data base center and Nasscom, through effective coordination with other states, to check computer related crimes.
He said that focus of the whole exercise is synergy and the integration of different services to achieve set goals, as no system can successfully work in isolation.
This year itself, a total of five cases have been registered under the purview of cyber crime. Over 50 complaints have been received in which 35 have been disposed of. Former Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University K N Pathak and PGI Director K K Talwar are among the most recent victims of cyber crime in the city.
