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Bengaluru city tops the list of cities in terms of cyber crimes in 2025 by accounting for 9,326 cases
In numbers
Replying to BJP member Cement Manju during Question Hour in the Assembly, he said 22,255 cyber crime cases had been filed in 2023 in Karnataka amounting to financial fraud of ₹873.29 crore. In 2024, the number of registered cyber crime cases stood at 22,478, accounting for financial fraud of ₹2,562 crore. So far, in 2025, these cases have stood at 13,000 with a financial fraud of ₹2,038 crore.
So far, it had been possible to recover only ₹627 crore in these cases of cyber crime, he said, while pointing out that more than 10,700 cases had been solved so far.
Most cases in Bengaluru
The statistics provided by the Minister shows that Bengaluru city tops the list of cities in terms of cyber crimes in 2025 by accounting for 9,326 cases. Among the districts, Bengaluru Urban district accounted for 384 cases, followed by Vijayapura (340), Tumakuru (243), Ramanagara district (192), Udupi district (171), Mysuru city (166) and Mysuru district (56).
Listing the efforts by the State government to curb cyber crimes, the Minister said Karnataka had created a cyber vertical led by a DGP like the CID and Prisons Department for the first time in the country. As many as 43 cyber police stations had been set up crack down against cyber crime, he said.
Online betting
Dr. Parameshwara said that incidents of online betting had increased both within the country and abroad.
He said the State government had tried to bring changes to the existing legislation to ban online betting. But the Online India Gaming Federation had got a stay from the courts against such changes. The State had now approached the Supreme Court and the case had been listed for December 19, he said.
Though the Centre too had brought in a legislation to curb online betting, that legislation too had been stayed, he said.
Published – December 09, 2025 06:32 pm IST
