Challenging Task For Cyber Crime Police

Cyber crimes pose a challenge to police. The Cyber Crime Cell of the Coimbatore City Police that came into being very recently seems to have a challenging task ahead as many of the offences were found to be easy to commit but hard to detect. It was tough to zero in on the offender. At present, the City Crime Branch led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, City Crime Branch, K. Krishnan is dealing with cyber crime cases and so far 12 cases had come up.

Of them, two have reached the stage of charge-sheeting while ten are under investigation, said Commissioner of Police, K.C. Mahali. Cases reported so far involved the use of cellular phones to send obscene messages, make obnoxious phone calls, intimidate people from unknown numbers, and unleash criminal intimidation. White collar offences involve hacking into websites for stealing the individual account data for resorting to unauthorised transfer of funds or misusing somebody’s account for making monetary gains. Diversion of funds from one account to the other was another modus operandi that the police have now come across.

There had been cases of even sending mails to target victims asking them to deposit money either as initial fee or processing fee for getting a lottery amount, gift or loans for business. There was also an instance of e-mails being sent to people asking them to deposit money for processing their overseas employment plans. Such mails had come from Indians or foreigners living overseas. In some cases, the investigating teams used to track the cellular number of the calls made from that number and in the event of computer-related crimes the teams used to track down the Internet protocol address and face a dead end.

In many cases, the offenders were either residing outside Tamil Nadu or even overseas, where zeroing in on them proved to be extremely difficult. Police depending on the nature of the offence were invoking the Information Technology Act provisions, provisions of Indian Penal Code such as cheating and criminal intimidation. In certain cases provisions of the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Harassment of Women Act and Trade Mark Acts had also been invoked.

There was no dearth of laws or skills to investigate. Ultimately what mattered were the problems faced in getting at the accused behind the crime. Technologically-savvy young officers had been identified and their knowledge in investigating such cases was being refreshed.

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