Rs 25,000 crore saved to E-Zero FIRs: PM Modi briefed on cybercrime action
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📌 Summary:
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PM Modi briefed by MHA on cyber fraud prevention worth over Rs 25,000 crore, a money-restoration module for victim refunds, and rollout of the E-Zero FIR initiative
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E-Zero FIR system: cyber financial crime complaints filed via the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) or cyber helpline 1930 are automatically converted into Zero FIRs if the reported loss exceeds Rs 10 lakh
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Currently live in 10 states/UTs — Delhi, Haryana, Odisha, MP, Uttarakhand, Goa, Chandigarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Assam; implementation in at least 19 more states/UTs underway
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Scale of the gap: 98 lakh cybercrime complaints (Aug 2019–May 2026) but only 2.3 lakh FIRs registered — an FIR conversion rate of just 2.36%
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Financial toll: Rs 64,447 crore reported lost (2021–May 2026); Rs 10,718 crore frozen as lien; only Rs 323 crore refunded to victims so far
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Prevention numbers: Rs 25,095 crore of fraud prevented; 2.27 crore transactions declined; 12.1 lakh mule accounts debit-frozen; 31.6 lakh suspect identifiers flagged via the suspect registry
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Content blocking: ~2.75 lakh URLs, 233 apps and 3,691 websites blocked in 5 years under the IT Act for content prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India
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1,596 banks/financial institutions onboarded on NCRP's Citizen Financial Cyber Frauds Reporting and Management System; future plans include state/regional cybercrime coordination centres and training police as 'cyber commandos'
🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS3 Internal Security — cyber security architecture (I4C, NCRP), financial cyber fraud, centre-state coordination in policing
📝 Prelims Facts:
- E-Zero FIR: auto-conversion of NCRP/1930 complaints into Zero FIRs where loss > Rs 10 lakh
- Cybercrime helpline number: 1930; portal: National Cybercrime Reporting Portal
- FIR conversion rate for cybercrime complaints: 2.36% (98 lakh complaints vs 2.3 lakh FIRs)
🔑 Key Term: Zero FIR — an FIR that can be registered at any police station irrespective of jurisdiction and later transferred to the police station with territorial jurisdiction
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