Newmai News Network Aizawl | November 13 At least 12 cases related to cyber crime have been registered in Mizoram within 10 months of the current year and monetary cheating on social networking site was the most among them, a leading Sunday newspaper ‘Zalen’ said quoting official data. The number of cyber crime case registered this year has exceeded the number of cases registered in last year by 4; there were 8 cyber crime cases registered in 2015. Of the cyber crime cases registered in Mizoram during this year, monetary cheating on social media and mobile phone, defamation on social networking sites and copy right reserve cases were common, officials of CID (Crime) branch said. Officials also said that complaints related to cyber crime were sometimes difficult to investigate. As Facebook related cases have to be followed up with Facebook centre and some server are outside India, the duration of investigation used to take long time, they said. Police department said that awareness programmes were carried out at schools, colleges, on radio and among youth members of churches. It added that frequent training was held among police personnel and measures are also being taken to have sophisticated machine.
