With data becoming easily accessible to all and unregulated flow of information gaining exponential momentum, the crucial question of safety in a cyberspace is concerning authorities in the State.
“80 per cent of cyber crimes occur with the objective of financial gain and banks do not undertake any training or awareness programmes for their customers and employees which have serious repercussions as we already know. Cyber privacy too is an alien concept in the country,” said Bharat Panchal, Senior Vice President and Head, Risk Management, National Payment Corporation of India. He further threw light upon Digital literacy in the country vis-à-vis the growing digitalisation of banking and payments, pointing at negligence and unawareness leading to breach in cyber security.
“India’s phenomenal inclination towards technological advancement in the past decade and a new generation of crime – cybercrime has found its way into the crime scene in both urban and rural areas of the nation,’’ said Gautam Kumar Choudhary, Director, Judicial Academy Jharkhand, Ranchi while he urged all the stakeholders of cybercrime, the victim, the police, investigating agencies, Judiciary, banks, internet service providers and the public to act in synergy to combat the problem of cybercrime.
A legal awareness seminar on cyber crime was organised by District Legal Services Authority, Ranchi in association with Judicial Academy Jharkhand under the research project – Cyber Crimes – Issues and Challenges here on Saturday. The event was graced by Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh of Jharkhand High Court as Chief Guest and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Anant Bijay Singh as Guests of Honour. The event was attended by judges, lawyers, police and people from banks and cyber technical support.
Choudhary elucidated the role of criminal justice system in cybercrime after the crime has been committed. “The Constitution tells us the division of power between institutions but doesn’t envisage the division of intention,” told Choudhary. Cybercrime may be complex to investigate and solve but leaves a clear digital footprint as concrete evidence that can be retracted, he further added.
Anish Gupta, SSP Ranchi, also took the platform to present the practical aspect of these crimes, the various ways in which common public is duped and updated the audience with the advancement undertaken by the police to deal with it. “Ranchi has two level system of reporting cyber crime - a state CID controlled police station for major cases and all police stations for minor cases under IT act. We have a cyber cell with DSP rank officers to provide a quality investigation,” told Gupta.
“All this has been done to make the institution easily approachable as loss of time is loss of critical evidence when it comes to cyber crime,” he added. He also presented various cases undertaken by the police in recent past which included giant platforms like Olx, Google Pay, Ola, Paytm which were used for money laundering.
