The web portal launched under the Cybercrime Prevention Against Women and Children (CCPWC) scheme by the state cyber cell can hardly be used to register an FIR owing to lack of information in the complaints registered, officers of the cyber cell have said. Most complaints received through this app are irrelevant, they said. State and Union cyber teams are now trying to redesign the portal to make it more effective.

Under the CCPWC scheme, a centralised online portal (www.cybercrime.gov.in) was launched in August this year for complaints of child pornography, inappropriate videos being circulated, etc. The Nodal Cyber Cell, with a jurisdiction throughout the state, can transfer such complaints to the police stations concerned through this system.