ver 1900 cybercriminals have been arrested in the first three months of 2025, with 21 persons being arrested per day on average, Haryana Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sumita Misra said on Thursday.
While 1909 cybercriminals were arrested in 2023, the number grew substantially to 5,156 in 2024, she added in a statement. Misra further said that the hold and recovered amount from these cybercriminals has also seen a steep rise with Rs 268.40 crore being held and recovered in 2024, up from Rs 76.85 crore in 2023. Further, in the first 3 months of 2025, a total of Rs 34.73 crore have already been held and recovered, registering an improvement of 33.36% in March this year. Misra said over 2.83 lakh bank accounts and 1.24 lakh mobile numbers were blocked in 2024, along with thousands more in 2025, including IMEI blocking to combat fraud.
The department is also conducting Cyber awareness programmes, which reached over 47 lakh citizens in 2024. The campaign continues in 2025 with over 1 lakh participants reached in the first three months, she added.
She further said that 29 Cyber Crime Police Stations are already functional in the state and 3 new cyber crime police stations for East and Gohana zone in Sonipat and Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district are in the process of being set up.
Misra informed that the 1930 Cyber Crime Helpline saw a surge in calls—from 1.45 lakh in 2022 to 7.25 lakh in 2024 — indicating growing public awareness and responsiveness toward cyber threats. Correspondingly, complaint registration rose to over 1.30 lakh cases in 2024 alone, up from 66,784 in 2022 and 1.15 lakh in 2023. Further, over 33,000 complaints have already been registered in the first 3 months of this year.