National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP)

Why in News?

Recently, the Minister of State for Women and Child Development stated the initiatives taken for National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) to promote online safety.

• NCRP – It is an initiative to facilitate victim’s complainants to report cybercrime complaints online.
• Established on – 2019, under Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) to deal with all types of cybercrime in the country.
• Objective – To enable public to report incidents of cyber-crimes, with special focus on cyber-crimes against women and children.
• Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Home Affairs
• Statutory backing – Cyber-crime cases are handled under
  • Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023
  • Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012
  • Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act)
• The revamped version of the portal allows reporting of all types of Cybercrimes.

• Monitoring Agency – The States/UTs are primarily responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of crimes including cyber-crime through their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs).

‘Police’ and ‘Public Order’ are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.

• Features – Special focus on content reporting of online Child Sex Abuse Material/Rape-Gang Rape incidents.
• National/State/District-Level monitoring dashboards.
• Online status tracking facility for the complainant.
• Cyber Volunteers registered as Cyber Awareness Promoters.

References

1. PIB| Online Safety
2. Cybercrime| National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal