The Ministry of Home Affairs is set to launch a web portal where people who have faced online abuse and victims of cybercrimes like financial frauds can register complaints on a real-time basis
The Centre also plans to give access rights to banks on the portal to address cases of fraudulent transactions online.
Panel’s directives
The portal has been readied on the directives of a committee appointed by the Supreme Court to check circulation of child pornography and sexual violence videos on the Internet.
In December, the court asked the Centre to set up a cell in the Central Bureau of Investigation or the Ministry of Home Affairs to report and take down such videos and messages.
Govt expected the government and social media platforms and Internet service providers, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, WhatsApp and Microsoft, to abide by the recommendations on which there is consensus and to try and implement them at the earliest.
The portal will be operational from January 10.
Access rights
If money has been fraudulently withdrawn through someone’s credit or debit card, the person can log onto the portal and register a complaint.
Since banks would be given access rights, the bank concerned would receive the complaint and take action immediately
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