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Cyberabad Police and SCSC celebrates Intl Women’s Day

Mar 6, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Cyberabad Police, #International Women’s Day, #Society for Cyberabad Security Council

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police and Society for Cyberabad Security Council celebrated International Women’s Day at Tech Mahindra, Danube Hall at Hitech City on Friday.

It was a hybrid event—in person and online.(Zoom and streamed live on Facebook ). Five hundred people participated in the celebrations.

Theme for the celebration was the United Nations theme ‘Choose to Challenge’.

Chief National Badminton Coach Mr. Pullela Gopichand was the Chief Guest and Indian Badminton Player Ms. Mansi Joshi, Guest of Honour at the celebrations.

Mr. VC Sajjanar, Cyberabad Police Commissioner; Smt Anasuya, DCP-Women & Children Safety Wing, Cyberabad; Mr Krishna Yedula, Secretary General SCSC; Ms Pratyusha Sharma, Jt. Secretary, Women Forum, SCSC; DCPs Padmaja, Venkateshwarlu, Vinay Agarwal of Tech Mahindra also graced the occasion.

There is no world without women. So be joyful all through the month and year said Mr VC Sajjanar, Commissioner of Police while addressing the gathering.

Lot of people talk about women empowerment but Pullela Gopichand has put it in practice, said Mr VC Sajjanar.

The theme being “choose to challenge”, my challenge as Commissioner of Police is to see that women work in all the verticals of Police in Cyberabad Commissionerate.

Gender Equality is under-rated. Our culture taught us to respect women. And that has ingrained us from our childhood said Pullela Gopichand.

My wife feels secured to travel back from the airport to home thanks to the She Team. So also my 18 year old daughter and many athletes at our academy, Gopichand said.

Best performers so far in sporting world like in Badminton have been women. Good about them is that if they decide, they give their 100%, Gopichand concluded his address.

Vinay Agarwal of Tech Mahindra asked the participants to give a standing ovation to all the women in our lives. And said that we come from such a culture where women are respected. We don’t have to prove to the world how we treat our women.

We had a woman president when the most developed countries in the world still can’t boast of, he said.

Pullela Gopichand launched a Safety e learning module in order to create awareness about women safety. Nearly 4 lakh out of 10 lakh IT force work in Cyberabad are women. So this 20 minute digital module is the answer. It is very important. It is launched in 3 languages—Hindi, English and Telugu, said Krishna Yedula. We want to reach out to all employees to achieve a holistic approach in our efforts, he said.

Manasi Joshi, a para-badminton player, the current World Champion and a changemaker who was the guest of honour said that in her hour of crisis she used better balancing skills she learned through the sport, badminton.

She shared her struggle and how she bounced back after her injury and subsequent success as a Para Badminton Player.

Womanhood itself is a celebration. There is no need to celebrate it on one particular day, she observed. I don’t mind being a nth (meaning last player) player, as long as more play the sport and more toe the line which nobody has achieved.

I challenged myself so here I am as DCP. You need to choose what to challenge. Life is full of challenges. The women’s day came into existence when few women challenged themselves to fight for their rights, said Mrs. Anasuya.

Views of a cross section of distinguished corporate executives on subjects such women, their safety, gender equality; women day celebration etc was screened.

If you want to see women empowered, their safety is key, said Pratyusha Sharma.

Educating, empowering and enabling are the three key areas we focus on she added for women safety .

2.5 lakh women were trained under various initiatives of SCSC with regard to women safety. There is a long way to go as there is a ten lakh workforce in the IT industry, she added.

Swapna, a survivor of Domestic Violence in her video message said marriage is just part of life. If it works fine, if not also, still fine. There is so much life beyond it. She narrated her struggle. So also a Malayalee woman who married a Telugu man in her audio message played recalled how various initiatives of SCSC and police helped her unite with her son and wage boldly her battle.

SCSC announced the launch of the Game Based Challenge on the eve of women’s day.

Many women achievers such as Kalpana Ramesh, Shravani, Thunki Lavanya and others were honoured with awards

Many contest winners were presented awards.

Venkat Tankasala Ramesh Khaja & Praveen and others graced the celebration.

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Cyberabad Police nabbed 10 Cyber Fraudsters, said to have cheated gullible people to the extent of INR 2crore

Mar 2, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Cyberabad Police

Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police achieved a breakthrough, busted a big gift scam, involved by well over 15 fraudsters hailing from Bihar, MP and Telangana.

Announcing this at a Press Conference held at Cyberabad Police Commissionerate office at Cyberabad, Mr VC Sajjanar, Police Commissioner claimed it to be a breakthrough as it involves local people’s link unlike before.

We have arrested 10 Cyber Fraudsters out of 15. The five are elusive. Our force is hopeful of nabbing the other, he added

What is so strange is that it is for the first time the fraudsters involved five Telugu speaking youth from Mancherial as tele-callers to add more native touch to gain more victims’ trust. They have also pressed into the service of people who speak native/local languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and other languages.

These Telugu speaking telecallers, A-11 to 15 include Manchinella Venkatesh; Gurramguda Rakesh; Elkaturi Prashanth, SuramRajender Reddy and Lingampally.

Though the number of victims is unknown, according to Mr Sajjanar, Police Commissioner of Cyberabad Police, the fraudsters are said to have cheated to the extent of Rs 2 crore.More details will emerge as probe deep into the subject, he said.

The Cyberabad Police under the leadership of Cyber Crimes ACP, Balakrishna Reddy; S. Venkat Reddy, Inspector of Police; K Vijay Vardhan, Sun-Inspector of Police seized 42 mobile phones, two laptops, 18 bundles of envelopes comprised of Naaptol Letters along with Scratch Cards, 28 Debit Cards, 10 Aadhar Cards and 2 rubber stamps.

The gangsters operated 53 bank accounts.

Police acted on the complaint from a victim registered on 11th August 2020. He got a call from Karthik, posing himself from the Herbal Care Group. Consequently, he received a letter by post which contained a scratch card. On rubbing it he found that he won a TATA Safari Car worth Rs 15 lakh. Follow up to it came another call expressing inability in shipping the car due to COVID and instead they offered to deposit the money. To receive the prize money the victim was told by the caller Arun Verma that he would need to pay TDS, GST and Conversion Fee to avail Cash. And demanded to deposit INR 45,150/-. They also shared two bank account details. Accordingly, the victim paid a sum of Rs 22,779/- through SBI Bank and another Rs 72,680/- to another SBI Account of Ashish Kumar and Jayant Kumar Lanka respectively. On the whole, the victim paid Rs 95,459/- in two instalments on 20th August.

Then the victim got repeated calls from them demanding to deposit money under different heads. That is when the victim realised that he was cheated and requested police to probe and take action. A case was registered under Section 417, 419, 420 IPC Sec 66C & D of IT Act in the Cyber Crime Police Station under Cyberabad limits.

The Modus operandi was simple. The fraudsters collected data from different sources such as Herbal Care Group; Naaptol and shopclues.com.

The data thus procured had only addresses and didn’t have mobile numbers. That is why they used to post(snail mail) informing their targets of their lucky prize. The letter provided a mobile number to which they needed to respond to.

Initially, they asked victims to pay just 1% tax amount as confirmation and acceptance of the offer. Then they started demanding under various heads such as 3% tax towards vehicle registration; 5% towards the delivery of the vehicle; 12% towards GST and 15% towards security deposit which was refundable.

They have set up two call centres in Jharkhand

The kingpin of the gang was Tarun Kumar alias Amit, a resident of Nawada District of Bihar. He was assisted by Prabhakar Kumar Sinha alias Mohit from Ranchi. He was in charge of the Call Center. He also monitored the data, prepared letters of Naaptol, Herbal Care Group and scratch cards. The same data was shared with tele-callers.

A-3 Kamlesh Dubey, a friend of Yashwanth Thakur, A-9 was coordinating with banks. A-4 and 5, Alok and Tiranju, both absconding, are natives of Bihar. Their job was to procure the database from various sources. A-6 Bajrangi, elusive, liaised with the bank and mastermind Tarun and used to pocket commission due to him. Kotresh and Sunil, still at large ran call centres located at Chuntia and Ranchi in Jharkhand. Yashwanth Thakur and Sourabh Patel, friends of A-3, arranged nearly 25 bank accounts to dupe the customers.

Speaking to the media Mr Sajjanar advised people to use common sense and not fall prey to such things. Do not believe in any Gift or Scratch Scams. No e-commerce company ever sends such mails, he said. He also advised people not to trust bulk SMSes being sent currently.

Money doesn’t come so easily. So don’t fall pray for easy money or lottery prizes.

The ACP Cyber Crimes Balakrishna Reddy asked the public to cross-check such offers either with the police or the e-commerce company’s official phone number.

Mr Sajjanar appreciated the police N. Vinayak, ASI; Constables N. Rajkumar, G.Krupakar Reddy, D. Shekhar, S. Shivakumar, Suraj Singh, M. Mahesh, M. Mahesh Goud, P. Anil, MD Arshad, S. Anandan, J. Mounika along with their superiors for their efforts in nabbing the culprits. They were also rewarded suitably.

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Traffic Police are in the forefront of leveraging digital technology: SM Vijay Kumar, DCP Traffic, Cyberabad

Feb 11, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Cyberabad Police, #DCP Traffic Sri SM Vijay Kumar, #Society for Cyberabad Security Council

Hyderabad, February 10, 2020: SCSC (Society for Cyberabad Security Council) and Cyberabad Police have jointly organised a Road Safety Virtual Meet with Novartis Employees here in the city today.

It was presided over by DCP Traffic Sri SM Vijay Kumar, IPS and Convenor Traffic Forum, SCSC. It was Coordinated and Addressed by Mr. Venkat Tankasala, Jt. Secretary, Traffic Forum, SCSC.

Addressing the virtual gathering Mr. SM Vijay Kumar said that they were focusing on two major concerns of the majority of the accident victims—the Bikers and Pedestrians. The lion’s share of accidents is of Bikers and Pedestrians. Out of the total number of accidents that are taking place 60 to 70% are of the Bikers and Pedestrians, he informed.

Giving his observations, Mr. Vijay Kumar said that it was noticed that Bikers do not follow the lane discipline, do not wear high-quality helmets, drive in a zigzag way in heavy traffic, drive very close to the heavy vehicles, enter the highway without proper observation, etc.

India has a national helmet law. It made it mandatory for both motorcycle drivers and pillion riders to wear helmets. But, the enforcement of this law rests with individual states. And not all states act very strongly on it

He expressed his anguish that not many wear helmets. Even if they wear it, they don’t wear it properly. Even if they wear they buy a substandard product which is easily breakable. Not many pay attention to the standards of the helmet. The majority of the pillion riders do not wear a helmet at all. Pillion Riders are mostly the victims of the fatal accident because they don’t wear them.

Many people around the world die in motorcycle collisions because of wearing substandard helmets. A reliable and high-quality helmet saves precious lives. Even if one life saved a day, 365 lives are saved in a year their families are protected from devastation.

A helmet protects your head. Helmet use is effective at reducing head injuries

To Counter this, Mr Vijay Kumar informed his participants that the Cyberabad Traffic Police has set up Seven Check posts with dedicated Teams working 24×7 whose work is not to allow any Two Wheeler to drive without wearing Proper Helmet by both the Rider and the Pillion Rider – which is giving good results and helped in reducing the Fatal Accidents.

Speaking about Pedestrian Safety, he said, the Cyberabad Traffic Police is coordinating with GHMC for their safety. They have already set up Four Road Crossing exclusively for Pedestrians.

GHMC & CTP have introduced the Comprehensive Road Maintenance Program (CRMP) which is a PPP Module under which the Pedestrian Safety measures like; Construction of Foot Paths, Foot Over Bridges, Road Cross Markings, Sign Boards, etc., are been set up. And about 14 new FOBs (Foot Over Bridges) and 31 Exclusive Pedestrian Road Crossings are under process.

At the end Vijay Kumar interacted with the employees and answered their questions, clarified doubts if they had any. Replying to a question he said lane markings of all the Roads in the is not possible. That is because of the small length of Roads and merging of the Bye Lanes etc are an impediment. So, lane marking of all the roads inside the city is not possible. But for long-distance roads like Highways and ORR we can see the lane markings very clearly.

Replying to another question on midnight racing Mr. Vijay Kumar said, booking of cases with the help of CCTV footage is giving good results. The police are taking stern action including confiscating their licence or canceling the same.

The traffic police are in the forefront of leveraging digital technology. A good example is contactless and cashless e-challans. Telangana is the First State in the country to initiate this he said.

Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS ) Project which is being implemented by L&T has many analytics and AI-based projects. It is a Digital Platform and helps Police minimize the manual efforts and bring down the Violations, Accidents, etc., and improves Safe Driving for the Public, he shared.

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Anushka Shetty, the Bahubali fame actress, graced the launch of ShePahi, the first Annual Conference 2021 held

Jan 28, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #actress Anushka Shetty, #Commissioner of Police, #Cyberabad Police, #Mr VC Sajjanar, #ShePahi

Hyderabad: ‘ShePahi’ the first of its kind Annual Conference 2021 of women police held today at JRC Conventions at Jubilee Hills, Film Nagar in the city.

Over 750 women police, their officers attended the daylong conference.

The Bahubali film fame actress Anushka Shetty was the guest of honour

Smt.Swati Lakra, IPS., (Addtl. DGP Women Safety Wing) along with Cyberabad CP Shri. VC Sajjanar, IPS., and Women and Children Safety Wing (W&CSW) DCP Smt. Anasuya graced the occasion

The theme of Annual SHE conference was “SHEpahi”, pahi meaning is good work –

  • S- Strength
  • H-Humanity
  • E- Empathy

bringing out the attributes that a woman brings to the police force.

Each woman is a soldier – a person on the ground to provide protection. Shield symbol signifies protection.

Welcoming the gathering Mr VC Sajjanar, Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad Police said under its jurisdiction 750 women police work. They have their own issues, challenges. So, we decided to hold this first conference on an annual basis. It is a first of its kind conference.

Anushka Shetty seen launching a video at the conference

12% of the total police force is women police. They are efficient. Given any responsibility they perform well. 50 per cent of senior police officers in Cyberabad are women. We have women in all the 17 verticals in Cyberabad. We work shoulder to shoulder in tandem, said Mr VC Sajjanar.

34% of Investigating Assistants are women. This has set a trend in India. A Woman SI in Rajendranagar Ms. Shwetha puts an exemplary service on par with her male colleagues, he shared.

Mr Sajjanar also mentioned about a woman Court Constable Ms. Pankaja because of whom police could get 16 life convictions. Even today she is busy attending a case in LB Nagar Court and unable to attend the conference. She is very committed to her work, he added.

He spoke about B. Ganga, K. Geetha, Alivelu and Swapna drivers of three DIAL 100 Immediate Response Vehicles launched today. They didn’t even know about cycling. These new recruits of 2020 have learnt driving after joining in the police last October, but picked it up fast. Ganga and Swapna are graduates and Alivelu and Geetha are intermediate. All women police in future will be trained in driving, informed Mr VC Sajjanar.

Speaking on the side-lines of the conference Ganga one of the drivers said, she was reluctant and afraid of driving initially but due to the confidence given by all, they could comfortably learn driving.

Traffic Women Police Pratyusha, Mr Sajjanar said, is always seen attentive in her duty on the road. Kavitha who is working in Cyber Crimes is handling her job so efficiently.

Similarly, among civilians Mr Sajjanar appreciated the efforts of Ms Prashanthi of COVID Control room, Kavitha, a driver from Miyapur, Jyotsna Angara for training women drivers.

Speaking further Mr Sajjanar said Cyberabad so far has 7 She Shuttle Services and today one more added thanks to Virtusa and SCSC. Nearly 60,000 women commute in these shuttles. He urged more companies to come forward to sponsor more such shuttle services.

There is one person, mother behind all our success including me because of the discipline she taught me. He told all women police to teach discipline to those whom they come in contact with. He appealed all mothers to raise children with discipline to have crime free society, state and nation.

DCP Anasuya giving her opening remarks described conference as historic and highlighted the various initiatives taken up for the welfare of women and Children in the Commissionerate. We among other issues discuss our profession, health and inspirational stories during the one-day conference she informed.

Two videos were launched at the conference including one on ‘SheTeams’.

Addressing gathering on occasion Anushka Shetty said though we film stars are portrayed as stars, each one of you seated in this hall are stars. We are reel stars and you are the real stars. Because your efforts and hard work behind us, we feel so secured and your sacrifices are supreme. I am privileged to be here amongst you, she said.

She lauded the efforts of the Cyberabad police during the pandemic, particularly the plasma drive they carried out. We can’t imagine a safe and secured life without police.

Addressing the gathering Chief Guest Ms. Swati Lakra said there is no gender bias in the police. We get trained and work together as one team. Then only we can give good service.

The Bharosa which was established in 2016 has presence in just 4 places. In 2021 it will be extended to 10 places. Bharosa provides integrated support to women and children who have been subjected to severe abuse, be it physical, sexual, financial or emotional.

She lauded the efforts of Cyberabad Police working on CCTV Surveillance on war foot basis. This project not only helps in prevention, but also in investigation and detection she said.

Speaking about Dial 100 and its response, Smt Swathi Lakra said, the present response time is under 10 minutes, which will be further improved upon.

Speaking about Girls Safety Clubs, an initiative, she said currently 12 colleges have 300 volunteers. We had interaction with 2500 college principals on the same prior to the pandemic. The girl volunteers in these clubs will be our eyes and ears as police can’t be there everywhere.

Addressing the new recruits, Swathi Lakra said when you as police help somebody you will drive a lot of satisfaction which no amount of money can give you.

Fifty per cent of the population are women. 50 per cent women should be there in police too. Also, there should be women in all the 17 verticals. Every woman police is on par with her male colleagues she told.

Women safety is the top priority of Telangana Police and Cyberabad Police.

On arrival Anushka Shetty together with top police officers flagged off three DIAL 100 Immediate Response Vehicles and one SHE Shuttle bus sponsored by Virtusa.

These DIAL 100 Vehicles will have women police officers along with male police officers to respond to women who dial the number 100 for help. In case of domestic violence, they will conduct counselling, warn the respondent or help women file FIR/petty cases in the police station. The teams will work 24×7 round the clock. Already 3 such teams are working in the three zones of Cyberabad and the team delivered good results.

The SHE Shuttle bus is a free bus service for women working in the IT Corridor.

Women form over 30 % of the workplace in the IT industry. The SHE Shuttle bus is a hop on hop off service for women. Apart from the driver there will be a woman security guard in the bus to help the commuters. This bus has a GPS tracking system. It is completely sponsored by SCSC- Society for Cyberabad Security Council. It is a unique initiative and one of its kind in the country.

The ShePahi Conference deliberated upon the problems being faced by the women in the police force. The first Conference paved the way for future annual conferences of similar kind to instil a sense of solidarity and sisterhood among all the women police officers and for discussion of problems being faced by them.

In the afternoon, the Commissioner addressed the problems brought to his notice. Later a Gynaecologist and a nutritionist addressed about the problems, health concerns, medical, nutritional related matters and precautions to be taken. A motivational speaker addressed to charge up the participants and to raise their self esteem and pride.

All the women and officer were happy about the care and concern shown by organising the conference. The first ShePahi conference was a huge success.

Sanjay Kambam of Votary Tech who developed Reach Safe app for SCSC She Shuttles was present and explained the features of the app.

DCP Traffic Vijay Kumar, DCPs Anasuya, Padmaja; Vekateshwarlu; ADCPs Crime Kavitha, Indira, ADCP Admin Lavanya, ADCP, CAR Manik Raj; CAO Admin D Geetha; CAO A/C Chandrakala; Krishna Yedula, Gen Secretary SCSC and Bharani Aroll, President Hysea & Pratyusha Sharma, Womens Forum Leader, SCSC graced the occasion.