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Here's how Maharashtra Police plans to fight online sexual crimes
Updated On: 06 August, 2018 04:32 PM IST | Mumbai | Anamika Gharat
New online portal will facilitate complainants to directly lodge a complaint on it, mentioning all technical evidence, and the case will be taken care of by the state cyber crime team

The cyber crime team will also monitor hashtags used by people to upload and search for content related to sexual abuse and will block the search and circulation of those videos. Representation pic
To crack down on rape and molestation videos being circulated on the Internet and bring the culprits shown in them to book, the Maharashtra cyber police will start an online portal within the next 15 days to register complaints of such content. The portal, which was initiated by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, called Cyber Crime Prevention of Women and Child (CCPWC), has already been started on a trial basis in a few states, including Maharashtra. In the next few days, it will be open to the public.
Inspector General of Maharashtra cyber crime, Brijesh Singh said, "Our team has been working hard on this portal that we'd started on August 1 on a trial basis. It will focus on complaints related to sexual abuse of women and children. As of now, it would respond to complaints, but in the future, we would use technology to identify and remove such content. Within the next few days, we will open this to the public."


