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Government Security

Assam gets its first cyber investigation lab

By Anshupriya Jha | 15 September 2011

The Assam police has inaugurated its first cyber investigation lab to probe crimes involving computers, mobile and the Internet.

Set up at a cost of Rs. 60 lakh, it has been set up as a part of the police modernisation scheme and has state of the art infrastructure. It will help in collecting and analyzing digital evidence as well as restoring and retrieving data from computers and cell phones to decode cyber offences.

The lab boasts of latest cyber investigation tools for extracting and analysing mobile phone details, cracking and recovering passwords, remote monitoring of sensors, recovering deleted files and tracing of e-mails.

Assam Police’ Deputy Inspector General (DIG), southern range, Vinod Kumar recently said the Centre’s IT department will also set up one cyber training facility each in the north-eastern States of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Sikkim to train police personnel in tackling cyber crimes.

Assam had first registered its first and only cyber crime case in2008 in May. While four cases were registered in 2009, the number shot up to 18 in 2010. A total of 16 cases have already been reported this year.

The Kerala State IT Mission was the first to launch a web portal and call centre against cyber crime in July 2007.

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