Central Suspect Registry

About Central Suspect Registry: 

• It is an initiative to strengthen fraud risk management by creating a registry of identifiers.
• It was created based on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP).
• It contains data of 1.4 million cybercriminals linked to financial fraud and various cyber-crimes.
• It has been developed by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), and can be accessed by states and UTs as well as central investigation and intelligence agencies.
• The registry was developed with collaboration from the banks/financial institutions and using it as a central-level database with consolidated data on cybercrime suspects.

What is the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)?

• It has been established under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to deal with cybercrime in the country in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. 
• It focuses on tackling issues related to cybercrime for citizens, including improving coordination between various LEAs and stakeholders.
• The centre is located in New Delhi.
• Functions:
  • It acts as a nodal point in the fight against cybercrime.
  • It identifies the research problems and needs of LEAs and take up R&D activities in developing new technologies and forensic tools in collaboration with academia / research institutes within India and abroad.
  • It prevents misuse of cyberspace for furthering the cause of extremist and terrorist groups.

Q1: What is the Samanvaya platform?

A web-based module called Samanvaya Platform to act as One Stop Portal for data repository of cybercrime, data sharing, crime mapping, data analytics, cooperation and coordination platform for Law Enforcement Agencies across the country.

Source: IE