India, June 30 -- Cybercrime hotspots linked to Nuh on the centre's Pratibimb application have dropped from 1,783 in March to 839 as of Saturday, a decline of 52.9% over the past four months, with police attributing the reduction to sustained enforcement by a special cybercrime taskforce constituted earlier this year.

According to Nuh police, the number of hotspots fell to 1,398 in April, a decline of 21.6%, and further dropped to 1,051 in May, down another 24.8%. Till Saturday, the application recorded 839 hotspots, marking a further 20.2% decline.

Police said the task force has been monitoring alerts generated through the Centre's Pratibimb application and conducting raids based on technical inputs. Officials said when a cyber fraud v...