http://www.gujaratglobal.com/nextSub.php?id=2186 Gujarat Global News Network Ahmedabad 2007-01-09 Inadequate laws and lack of awareness among people and police are the two biggest factors for the growing menace of cyber crime in India. The scale of problem is not known just because victims of cyber crime do not come forward. This is how leading cyber law expert of the country Pavan Duggal sums up the twilight zone of cyber laws in the country. Duggal, a Supreme Court advocate has a repository of number of cases of cyber crimes in India to prove his point that the new type of crime has come to stay in India and is flourishing. This is just because of lack of Laws and awareness among people, he says. Cyber terrorism a great challenge to Indian police in the coming days, according to him. In the last 11 years only two persons have been convicted for cyber crimes in India. Even after amendments made in the IT Act 2000 in December last the Act is obsolete. Initially the Act had only six types of offences in its purview. There is an urgent need for an exhaustive and all comprehensive IT Act to deal with the fast growing problem of cyber crime. Duggal was in Anand city for the launch of Asia's first cyber law clinic which will be run by the students of SEMCOM, an institution of Charutar Vidya Mandal. The clinic will be run with the active participation of Duggal. Appreciating the initiative of SEMCOM, Duggal said there was great need for forum where victims of cyber crimes can raise their voice and they have access to information. Duggal strongly feels that there is great need for the capacity building in this sphere. Today police is not willing to register cyber cases and in majority of cases it was not equipped to deal with such offences. Even the judicial system is to be sensitized to this new dimension of the law, he says. He agrees that cyber laws should be part of legal education as a special subject. He listed financial frauds, identity theft, phishing and data theft as major areas of cyber crime while describing cyber terrorism as the biggest threat looming large in cyberspace. Police should not only have knowledge of laws, but also tools to effectively deal with cyber crime. He said that another practical problem of evolving effective cyber laws is the fact that while technology was growing at a great pace, the law making process was at the old snail pace. Giving an example he said that the IT Act came into force in 2000, it took full six years for amendments to the Act. And the situation is such that nature of the problem has grown many fold during this period and the Act with the amendment is as obsolete as the Act of 2000! _____________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn
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