Maharashtra is converting 42 state-of-the-art cyber crime labs into cyber police stations, as part of the BJP-led government's strategy to take on cyber criminals. "Maharashtra is the first state in the country which will have a cyber police station in each district simultaneously," a top Home Department official told PTI.

Cyber crime in Maharashtra has risen by a whopping 142.1 per cent in the last few years, the official said. These cyber police stations will also be set up at police commissionerate and Range IG offices. The Devendra Fadnavis-led government, which completed two years recently, will soon issue a notification in this regard, the senior IPS official said.