Overview
- Victims can report through platform channels, One Stop Centres, local police or the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal for rapid action.
- Intermediaries must take down or disable flagged content within 24 hours, acknowledge complaints and align policies with the IT Rules, 2021.
- Significant social media platforms must deploy crawlers, generate hashes of reported images or videos and submit them via the Sahyog Portal to I4C’s secure hash bank to prevent reuploads.
- Search engines must de-index NCII, CDNs and domain registrars must make flagged URLs inaccessible within 24 hours and DoT will work with ISPs to block links referred by authorities.
- MeitY describes the SOP as an evolving, coordination-focused playbook, while advocates warn that stigma, low trust in policing and limited awareness could blunt real-world uptake.