Bengaluru, the country’s ‘IT capital,’ topped the list in cyber crimes registered across all metro cities in India in 2022 again, an ignominy it has had for several years now. According to the National Crime Records Bureau report, 2022, for cyber crimes, as many as 13,534 cases were registered in 19 prominent metro cities of the country in 2022, and cases in Bengaluru accounted for nearly three-fourths of that. In 2023, Bengaluru alone recorded 17,623 cyber crime cases.
But here is the catch. Until recently, Jamtara in Jharkhand, which even inspired an OTT series, was the headquarters of cybercrime in India. But law enforcement agencies say there are new hotspots emerging, proving to be a major challenge for the investigating authorities.
