In recent times, Bangladesh has made a remarkable progress in improving the lives of women. Despite the fact, women face lots of challenges in our society. As per press reports, 82 percent of married women suffer from gender-based violence. Pervasive sexual violence prevents them from achieving their full potential. Many a time the bright light of life goes out because of such incidents. Of late, Bangladeshi women fall victims to a new type of crime—cybercrime. Criminals are committing this sort of crime following misuse of information technology (IT). We are quite concerned at the rising trend of cybercrime against the country’s womenfolk.

Because of such crime, personal lives of thousands of women have turned miserable. The life of a victim is just as miserable as it is emotionally damaged. If such an accident happens to a woman, she has no way to move normally outside the home. It is sad indeed that even though such incidents are on the rise for some time, there are a very few instances where cyber criminals have been punished. Definitely, a major part of the responsibility to stop such crimes falls on the police force, especially the cybercrime fighting unit.