Gujarat Cyber Crime Cell recovers ₹108 cr in one year
Updated: Dec 24th, 2024
The State Cyber Crime Cell of Gujarat Police has recovered more than ₹108 crore from the amount stolen by cyber criminals from innocent citizens in the year 2024.
A total of 1.31 lakh complaints related to cyber crimes were received from January 1 to December 15, 2024. Of them, the Cyber Crime Cell has succeeded in freezing ₹285.12 crore of the amount lost in fraud.
Out of this, ₹108.08 crore has been recovered and returned to the victims, while the process of returning the rest of the amount is underway.
SP Dharmendra Sharma of the State Cyber Crime Cell said that a special campaign was run from December 3-13, 2024 with the aim of getting the money back to the applicants through the Lok Adalat.
In this campaign, opinions of a total of 40,905 applications from across the state were submitted to the Lok Adalat. As a court order will be issued soon, an additional ₹75 crore will be returned.
Since the money freeze and recovery rate is highest in the complaints received during the golden hours of cyber fraud (within five hours of the fraud), Gujarat Police DGP Vikas Sahay appealed to the citizens to contact the helpline number – 1930 in case of any cyber fraud incident.
