MPs Flag Concerns Over Cyber Frauds as Probe Agencies Brief Parliament Panel

Issue of 'Low Conviction' Raised

- MPOST BUREAU

NEW DELHI: Lawmakers from different parties on Thursday were united in raising concern over cybercrime incidents, especially financial fraud targeting gullible people, as the CBI director, NIA DG and senior officials from different ministries appeared before a parliamentary committee.

Sources said some Opposition MPs flagged the alleged low conviction in such cases and also raised the issue of businessmen accused of defrauding banks of thousands of crores of rupees continuing to escape Indian agencies' attempts to bring them back from their foreign refuge to face justice.

The Standing Committee on Home Affairs, headed by BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, held almost day-long meetings on Wednesday and Thursday over "Cyber Crime - Ramifications, Protection and Prevention".