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Telangana recorded the highest fig of cybercrime cases successful the state successful 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) study released connected Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
The State registered 27,230 cybercrime cases successful 2024, acold up of each different State and Union Territory successful the country. Karnataka stood 2nd with 21,993 cases followed by Uttar Pradesh with 11,073 cases and Maharashtra with 9,922 cases.
The numbers amusement a steep leap of astir 49% successful 2024 arsenic compared to 18,236 cases successful 2023. Over the two-year play from 2022 to 2024, cybercrime cases successful Telangana roseate by astir 78%.
Telangana unsocial accounted for much than one-fourth of each cybercrime cases registered successful India successful 2024. Nationally, cybercrime cases accrued from 86,420 successful 2023 to 1,01,928 successful 2024, registering a emergence of astir 18.1%.
The cybercrime complaint successful Telangana stood astatine 71.1 cases per lakh colonisation successful 2024, the highest successful the state and astir 10 times the nationalist mean of 7.3. While cyber crimes surged, Telangana’s chargesheeting complaint remained debased astatine 16.2%, astir fractional the nationalist mean of 31.9%, indicating slower conversion of complaints into prosecuted cases.
Fraud continued to stay the biggest operator of cybercrime successful the State successful 2024, with 21,987 cases linked to frauds, 414 cases were related to cyber extortion and 157 were linked to intersexual exploitation, the information revealed.
Hyderabad emerges arsenic large metropolis hotspot
Meanwhile, Hyderabad continued to fertile among the country’s astir cybercrime-affected metropolitan cities.
Hyderabad recorded 4,009 cybercrime cases successful 2024, placing it lone down Bengaluru and Mumbai among large metropolitan cities. Bengaluru topped the database with 17,561 cases, portion Mumbai recorded 4,939 cases. Across metropolitan cities, cybercrime cases roseate from 33,955 successful 2023 to 34,958 successful 2024.
Despite remaining among the worst-affected cities, Hyderabad saw a diminution successful cybercrime cases successful 2024 compared to the erstwhile 2 years. The metropolis had reported 4,436 cases successful 2022 and 4,855 cases successful 2023. The 2024 fig represents a diminution of astir 17% from 2023 levels.
However, Hyderabad’s cybercrime complaint remained among the highest successful the state astatine 51.7 cases per lakh population, portion the chargesheeting complaint stood astatine 12.9% successful 2024, little than the metropolitan cities mean of 27.1%.
