Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) - A 7-Pronged Scheme to Fight Cyber Crime- (Press Information Bureau) (17 Jul 2019)

MANU/PIBU/1153/2019

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MHA has rolled out a scheme 'Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)' for the period 2018-2020, to combat cyber crime in the country, in a coordinated and effective manner. The scheme has following seven components:

(i) National Cyber crime Threat Analytics Unit.

(ii) National Cyber crime Reporting Portal.

(iii) Platform for Joint Cyber crime Investigation Team.

(iv) National Cyber crime Forensic Laboratory Ecosystem.

(v) National Cyber crime Training Centre.

(vi) Cyber crime Ecosystem Management Unit.

(vii) National Cyber Research and Innovation Centre.

The Central Government has launched Cyber crime Reporting Portal to enable citizens to report online content pertaining to Child Pornography (CP)/Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or sexually explicit content such as Rape/Gang Rape (CP/RGR).

The Central Government has taken steps to spread awareness on cyber crime, issue cyber related alerts/advisories, capacity building/ training of law enforcement officers/judges/prosecutors, improving cyber forensics facilities etc. to prevent cyber crime and expedite investigations.

Police' and 'Public order' are State subjects as per the Constitution of India. States/UTs are primarily responsible for prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of crimes through their law enforcement machinery. The Law Enforcement Agencies take legal action as per provisions of the law against the reported cyber crimes.

Tags : SCHEME CYBER CRIME