Panaji: The Cyber Crime Cell (CCC) of the Goa police has closed over half of its cases due to lack of evidence. Not a single person has been convicted in the state for cyber crime.
Since 2014, 118 cases have been registered at the CCC and closure reports have been filed in 61 cases.
A senior police inspector said that the primary reason for cases remaining unresolved is the state’s lack of infrastructure to investigate cyber crimes. Most of the accused used foreign networks to cheat the people.
Another major problem faced by police in investigating cyber crime cases is lack of skilled manpower, sources said.
CM Pramod Sawant in his written reply to the assembly said that chargesheets have been filed in 31 cases and that most of the cases pending investigation are those registered in 2020.
Sawant said that in two cases there court acquitted the accused while trials have been conducted in 29 cases.
The Centre has approved Rs 1.4 crore for a cyber training lab under the Cyber Crime Prevention Against Women and Children (CCPWC) Scheme. The process of finalising a bidder to set up the lab is under way.