High Court on 10th September 2025 directed the State government to establish a fully functional and empowered Cyber Command Centre (CCC) to address the menace of digital crimes. It is stated that cyber crime complaints are now about 20% of the complaints received by the Police in Karnataka.
This has been a long felt need often recommended by the undersigned in the early years of Cyber Crime Police station and now the Court under Justice Nagaprasanna has issued an order to set up the centre and also added that the officials posted in this centre should not be frequently transferred. Court has also mentioned that political interference should be avoided.
The Court directed that all Cyber Crime investigations should be consolidated with the CCC to ensure uniformity, expertise and accountability. The control of CCC will rest with a separate DIG and move away from CID. For the time being it will function from the CID premises but all the 43 Cyber Crime Police stations in the State.
Following the order, the government has re-designated a senior IPS officer of 1994 batch – DGP, Internal Security Division (ISD), Police Computer Wing (PCW) and Cyber Crime & Narcotics (C&N), Pronab Mohanty as DG, Cyber Command. This will be the first such unit in India.
The CCC will have four wings namely
- Cyber Crime Wing – Handles complaints, registers cases, and investigates cyber fraud, financial scams, and hacking incidents.
- Cyber Security Wing – Tracks and prevents hacking of bank accounts, social media, and critical software systems.
- IDTU Wing (Information, Detection, Tracking Unit) – Focuses on tracing cybercriminals through IP addresses, geolocation, and data sourced from social media platforms.
- Training, Capacity Building & Awareness Wing – Provides advanced training for cyber officers, enhances technical skills, introduces new technologies, and runs public awareness programs for citizens and students.
These developments followed a petition filed in December by a company, Newsspace Research and Technologies Pvt. Ltd., against some of its former employees for allegedly stealing the confidential data. In the past there have been several such complaints but the Judge in this case, honourable Justice Nagaprasanna and set up an SIT for investigation which has now evolved as the CCC.
The credit goes to the Judge and not to the political leadership of the State.
We suppose such CCCs will emerge in all other states and eventually, a National CCC should evolve taking Cyber Crime investigation and prosecution to a different level.
Hope Mr Amit Shah takes note of this developments and encourages other states to follow the example.
Naavi
