While all this was happening, at around 12.50 AM, DCP CyPAD Anyesh Roy received a call alert from Facebook’s US office about a suspicious self-harm live video being posted by a male Facebook user located in Delhi.
The Delhi Police has registered more than 600 cases and arrested over 300 people in connection with Covid-related crimes, officials said on Saturday. According to the data shared by police, 109 cases of alleged hoarding and black-marketing of oxygen cylinders and coronavirus drugs were registered between April 13 and May 18. While 492 cases of alleged cheating of people on the pretext of providing them Covid-related help were lodged during the same period, police said. A total of 312 people have been apprehended, they said, adding most of the arrests were made outside the national capital. Police have blocked around 300 bank accounts and more than 900 phone numbers. The cheated amount recovered during this period would be in crores, they said.
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Numerous complaints about Covid patients falling prey to cyber fraud, 8 FIRs filed: Delhi Police
The Delhi Police Monday said it has been receiving numerous complaints about Covid-19 patients falling prey to cybercriminals, and eight FIRs have been registered in this connection at CyPAD and different police stations. Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava Monday directed his officers to immediately put in place a comprehensive strategy to curb the spurt in cyber offences.
The police said in a statement that later a meeting of all district Cyber Crime Cells and Crime Branch was held, which was coordinated by the CyPAD or Cyber Prevention Awareness & Detection Center, the Delhi Policeâs nodal cybercrime unit.
Covid India: Police warn of cyber criminals during virus crisis
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Delhi Police get several complaints about Covid-19 patients being conned by cybercriminals.
For the thousands suffering from the Covid crisis, there is another fearsome battle that they confront with an additional deadly virus, also starting with the letter ‘C’: cyber criminals.
The Delhi Police has been getting several complaints about Covid-19 patients being conned by cybercriminals. Already involved in battling the Covid tragedy, the police force tweeted:
#DELHIPOLICE ACTION ON COVID CHEATS |
Did someone #cheat you in name of providing oxygen/medicine/hosp bed/remdesivir etc? U paid online & its gone?
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday laid out directions to tackle the issue of removing offensive content from the internet and preventing errant parties from re-posting and re-directing such content. Observing that “the internet never sleeps; and the internet never forgets,” Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that despite orders passed by the court, online platforms have not been able to “fully and effectively remove” content.
The judgment was passed in response to a petition by a woman who complained that photographs that she posted on her private accounts on Facebook and Instagram were taken without her knowledge and consent and reshared on a pornographic website. While the photographs themselves are not objectionable, they have become offensive by association, thus making the publishing and transmitting of this material an offence under section 67 of the Information Technology Act (IT Act) 2000, the court held.