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Union Home Minister Amit Shah called for coordinated and contiguous enactment by each stakeholders to curb cyber fraud connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026), stating that if steps were not taken, it would crook into a nationalist crisis.
Stating that cybersecurity was nary longer conscionable an contented of economical security, Mr. Shah said it was present besides linked to nationalist security. “It is truthful our corporate work to firmly unafraid the economic, social, administrative, and nationalist information dimensions, and to beforehand the integer revolution.”
Addressing the nationalist league connected ‘Tackling Cyber-Enabled Frauds & Dismantling the Ecosystem’, organised by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mr. Shah said determination should beryllium amended coordination among stakeholders, including banks and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).
The Home Minister said I4C, State police, CBI, National Investigation Agency, Enforcement Directorate, Department of Telecommunications, Department of Banking, Ministry of Information Technology, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and the judiciary were moving unneurotic to forestall cybercrime.
Digital payments explosion
He noted that implicit the past 11 years, nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the fig of net users has grown from 250 cardinal to implicit 1 billion. Mr. Shah further stated that successful 2024, much than 181 cardinal UPI transactions, involving implicit ₹233 trillion, were recorded. He added that 97% of full outgo transactions are present carried retired digitally, with that fig reaching 99% successful presumption of volume.
“Keeping these transactions unafraid is present our apical priority,” helium said, adding that arsenic of February 2026, implicit 570 cardinal Jan Dhan accounts had been opened. The fig of RuPay debit cards had reached 398.1 cardinal and was expected to surpass astir 500 cardinal by December 2026.
Speaking astir the multi-pronged strategy adopted by the Union Home Ministry, Mr. Shah said its cardinal pillars see real-time reporting of cybercrimes, a robust web of forensic laboratories, capableness building, probe and development, spreading cyber consciousness successful society, and ensuring cyber hygiene successful cyberspace.
He said that from January 2020 to November 30, 2025, the I4C reporting portal had been utilized implicit 230 cardinal times. By November 2025, implicit 8.2 cardinal cybercrime complaints had been filed done the portal, of which 1.84 lakh were converted into First Information Reports, with a ample fig of complaints efficaciously resolved.
By December 2025, astir 62 banks and fiscal institutions crossed the state had go portion of the system. The Ministry has acceptable a people of onboarding each banking and fiscal institutions, including cooperative banks, earlier December 2026.
₹8,189 crore ‘rescued’
Mr. Shah hailed the rescue of ₹8,189 crore from cybercriminals implicit the past 4 years, which was made connected the ground of 3.61 lakh complaints, arsenic a large achievement. “Estimates suggest that the full fraud amounted to ₹20,000 crore, of which we person frozen oregon returned ₹8,189 crore to the victims,” helium said. He added that by December 2025, the Home Ministry had cancelled 1.2 cardinal suspicious SIM cards and blocked the IMEI numbers of 3 lakh mobile devices. In all, 20,853 accused had been arrested.
He urged each constabulary units crossed the state to deploy capable telephone handlers astatine the 1930 telephone centre to guarantee timely action. Similarly, helium said, each private, public, and cooperative banks should instantly follow the Mule Account Hunter software, jointly developed by the Government of India and the RBI.
The Home Minister said that 795 institutions had joined the I4C, including banks, fintech companies, non-banking fiscal companies, and e-commerce platforms. All these institutions should prioritise I4C and guarantee punctual responses to its calls, helium noted. He added that the 362 delegates took portion successful the conference.
