Kolkata:
With cyber crimes on the rise, the Kolkata police are mulling setting up a police station exclusively to deal with such complaints.
"Apart from a cyber crime cell of the city police, which was set up a couple of years back, an exclusive cyber police station is in the process of being set up to handle the ever-rising cases," DC (Detective Department) Damayanti Sen said.
The investigation into the new-age crimes required skill as it is different from a routine criminal inquiry, the senior official emphasized.
"There has been a phenomenal rise in obscene e-mails, credit card frauds, hacking of net surfers' profiles, identity theft and even child pornography," a senior official of the cyber cell told PTI.
He said the cell received annually around 50 complaints of offensive e-mails and as many other complaints, including frauds, less than half of which are formally registered, the cyber cell officer said.
Citing some cases, he said a woman researcher was let off with warning after morphing the image of her divorcee female colleague due to professional jealousy in 2008.
An executive was charge-sheeted for posting morphed nude pictures of women last year.
A city businessman late last year was defrauded of several lakhs of rupees after being befriended by a Senegalese woman during an Internet chat and a Nigerian accomplice of the woman was arrested in the city.