Thiruvananthapuram, Monday 09 Feb 2009: Justice V.S. Sirpurkar of the Supreme Court has emphasised the need to create special courts to tackle cases relating to e-commerce and cyber crime.
He was inaugurating a national seminar on ‘cyber crimes, cyber laws and cyber security’ organised by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) in the city on Sunday.
“We need courts manned by trained judges to dispose of the cases in a time-bound manner,” said Mr. Sirpurkar. The Supreme Court Justice said that the Information Technology Act should be made powerful enough to dissuade potential criminals. Mr. Sirpurkar sought to play down any distinction in the nature of crimes.
“A crime is a crime. There should not be any distinction between a white collar and blue collar crime. The differentiation is a relic of the British jurisprudence,” the judge said.
- By KOL News , Written on February 9, 2009
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Like Mr. Praveen Dalal, Managing Partner of Perry4Law, says India must appreciate that for a safe and secure cyberspace, we need a good legal framework. The present IT Act, 2000 is a piece make legislation that is weak on the fronts of cyber law, cyber security, cyber forensics, etc. In the absence of a sound legal framework for the ICT systems in India, other e-governance projects of government are also in poor state. As each component of e-governance is related to some other one, a deficiency in the basic legal and technological framework would bring sad results for India. It is high time for India to do some good work in the fields of cyber law, cyber security and cyber forensics. We must seek the expert services of Mr. Praveen Dalal for matters pertaining to cyber law, cyber security, cyber forensics, e-courts, cyber law courts, etc.