Cyber crime on law minister’s mind

Veerappa Moily says existing cyber laws are not enough to protect children, women

Cyber crime on law minister's mind

Veerappa Moily says existing cyber laws are not enough to protect children, women

With the glut of information and contingency on the Internet on the upward slant, invading the private space of netizens has become just another mean task.

Concerned: Veerappa Moliy at the conference. Pic/Jignesh Mistry

No wonder, the newest space for crimes, namely the cyber, is topmost on the law enforcers' radar and the Union Minister for Law and Justice Dr M Veerappa Moily chose not to differ. In the city to address the students of Bharati Vidyapeeth University's New Law College yesterday, Moily underlined the spate of cyber crimes and the import of apposite laws to curb them.

Moily told the students that cyber crime was a huge issue and cyber law, an envolving process. "Cyber crime is an easy process because one just needs to join a social networking site and can either tamper with one's Internet account or harass someone openly."

He also pointed out that child pornography was a serious threat and a growing concern. "There has to be a way to tackle the issue. Therefore the cyber law needs to evolve every year. The current cyber laws are not enough to protect children and women. We do not have specific enforcement agency. Judges and lawyers need to be trained; orientation camps can be organised at various law college for them," Moily said.

The forum was attended by lawyers from the Pune Bar Council, and included first- to final-year law students.
He did not desist from mentioning the confusion created by Wikileaks. "Now we cannot accept Wikipedia to be completely true because the authors are unknown and there is no guarantee to their information," Moily said. "Look at the chaos created in the Parliament because of the Wikileaks and these information has been misleading from the beginning. But they created havoc in the country and among the people."

Justice PN Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, Patangrao Kadam,vice-chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth, Vishwajeet Kadam, secretary of Bharati Vidyapeeth and Gudmundar Eiriksson, ambassador of Iceland to India were also present at the session.u00a0The New Law College recently started the Euro American Legal Study International Research Center.