Crime Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have broken the nexus of cyber criminals in Karmatand area of Jamtara by the initiatives taken up by CID in the area. While giving an account of crime situation in the state, CID officials also claimed that disposal of old cases are being expedited by the CID after reviewing them properly.
“When the incidents of cyber crimes increased in the area, the CID intervened and succeeded in breaking the nexus of criminals in the area,” said IG (CID) Sampat Meena. She further added that in order to break the nexus of criminals, the department asked Jamtara SP to prepare a data base of criminals in the area and provided technical support to Jamtara police guiding them how to take action in this regard.
“Gradually, with technical support provided by CID, finally nexus of the cyber criminal active across the Country has finally been broken,” she added.
“As per the last review, out of 27 cases detected in this regard, over 75 criminals have been sent to jail,” Meena added. Action is being taken against the cases registered to the CID the local police is also being trained how to tackle such cases. “Continuous monitoring is also being done by the CID in this regard,” said the IG.
When asked about the status of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in the state, the IG claimed that a joint exercise with NSG has been done twice at Ranchi and Jamshedpur. Regular refresher courses are also being organized for them, she added.
“Similarly, a joint exercise with IB is also being organised for ATS….. A training programme was also organised in Kolkata,” she said.They are also in contact and co-ordination with the ATS of other states as more and more data base needs to be collected in this regard, she claimed.
Talking about the works done so far by CID, IG said that profiling of 15 terrorists has been done along with profiling of villages and districts of Jharkhand on terrorist activity vulnerability. “Six major raids have been conducted so far this year with 10 persons arrested along with the recovery of arms and ammunitions.”
ADG (CID) Ajay Kumar Singh said on the occasion that disposal of old cases are being expedited by the Department after reviewing them properly. He said that maximum of 10 cases were disposed of by the CID earlier, but in the last 3-4 months as many as 10 cases have been disposed of and the number is expected to increase double-fold by the end of the year.
“We have been reviewing the old cases registered with the department and their disposal is being done accordingly. Definitely, there has been an increase in the disposal of cases as in the last 3-4 months more than 10 cases were disposed of and the figure may get doubled up by the end of this year,” said the ADG. last year the figure could not cross the mark of 10, he added.
The CID also claimed that the number of incidents of murder has decreased in Ranchi till June this year as compared to last year while incidents related to loot, dacoity and burglary has increased considerably.
As per the data provided by the CID, number of murders across Jharkhand has increased to 786 till May this year as compared to 776 last year.