With over 12K cases in a year, Karnataka overtakes UP in cybercrimes list

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October 5, 2020

Bengaluru, Oct 5: With a 63.48% rise in cybercrimes, Karnataka has earned the ignominy of recording the highest number of such cases overtaking Uttar Pradesh last year.

Altogether, police across the country registered 44,456 cases of cybercrime last year with Karnataka clocking 12,020 cases followed by Uttar Pradesh (11,416) and Maharashtra (3,604).

Compare it with 2018 when 27,248 cybercrime cases were registered: Karnataka was placed second with 5,839 as against the topper Uttar Pradesh (6,280) while Maharashtra, which came third, registered 3,511 cases. If one takes the 2016 statistics, Karnataka has registered a nearly 11-fold rise from 1,101.

According to the Crime in India 2019 report by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the rate of cases pending investigations in Karnataka is pegged at 93.1%, the charge-sheeting rate is just 8.1% while cases pending trial is 95.6%. It also tops the list of cybercrimes against women.

When it comes to convicting the perpetrators, Karnataka again falters, as the state could send just ten people in nine cases – 25.7% of 35 cases in which trial ended – to the jail while 31 in 26 cases managed to get acquittal. However, it was a better show last year compared to 2018 when its conviction rate was a mere 2.3%. In 2017, not a single case ended in conviction in the state.

Investigators and cybercrime experts attribute the low conviction rate to sloppy investigations by inadequately trained police personnel and flaws in collecting cyber forensics. Many times, they say, lack of credible evidence as well as the lack of expertise of investigators and judicial officers lead to acquittals.

Karnataka could not finish investigations in 18,638 out of the over 20,000 cases it handled last year. When it comes to court trials, only 817 cases went to trial in Karnataka of which only 35 were completed, leaving 781 cases pending at various stages of the trial.

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Israel recruiting African refugees to kill Palestinians in exchange for residency status

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September 16,2024

The Israeli regime is recruiting African asylum seekers to kill Palestinians in the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in exchange for permanent residency status, according to a report.

The report, ran by the Israeli paper Haaretz on Sunday, revealed that the project is conducted in an organized manner, with the guidance of military establishment legal advisers.

In Gaza, the death toll passes 41,200 with close to 100,000 more injured in almost a year since the Israeli regime forces launched their genocidal war. However, the continued violence is prompting some Jewish Israelis to leave the occupied Palestinian land.

To make up for the loss, Tel Aviv is offering the incentive of permanent residency status to asylum seekers who agree to join the Israeli regime forces ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Haaretz has learned that some people have expressed objections to the practice, arguing that it exploits people who have fled their countries due to war. However, according to those sources, these voices have been silenced.

“This is a very problematic matter,” one source was quoted as saying by Haaretz.

According to the report, there are currently some 30,000 African asylum seekers living in the occupied territories, most of them young men. Around 3,500 are Sudanese citizens with temporary status granted by the court because the regime has not processed and ruled on their applications.

Unnamed sources who spoke with Haaretz also revealed that while there were some inquiries about granting status to asylum seekers who assisted in the genocidal war in Gaza, none were actually given status.

Haaretz also learned that the Interior Ministry explored the possibility of drafting the children of asylum seekers, who were educated in schools in the occupied territories, into the Israeli military.

In the past, the regime allowed the children of foreign workers to serve in the military in exchange for granting status to their immediate family members.

African refugees, who came to the occupied territories seeking asylum, were previously kept in internment camps and deported without their own consent.

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