Cybercrime pendency rose in two-thirds of states in 2020: NCRB data

Chargesheeting, which indicates the rate of disposal of crime cases by the police, declined in nearly half the states when compared to 2019

Earlier this year, the home ministry informed the Parliament that cybersecurity-related incidents had increased three times in 2020 as compared to 2019. Quoting CERT-In data, the ministry said that 1.16 million cybersecurity-related incidents were reported to the agency; in contrast, in 2019, 394,499 incidents were observed. Compared to 2017, cybersecurity incidents increased nearly 20-times.

National Crime Record Bureau data for 2020, released in September, posits a similar trend, but the scale and intensity with regard to cybercrime are much reduced.

According to NCRB, cybercrime incidents increased 1.1-times compared to 2019 and have only increased 2.3-times since 2017. Although cybercrime and