21-03-2014, 10:59 AM
Managing cyber crimes in India – issues and challenges
Abstract
The use of internet has become the part and parcel of every educated person in this
world. It has opened the gates to the information superhighway connecting the rest of the
world to whole a lot of information and to all corners of the world at once. It connects the
person sitting in the remote corner of the home or office to the entire world thorough the
information highway called passionately web, cyber, etc. It connects everyone to his office,
bank, electricity dept, water works, travel service, bazaar, bookshop, friend in other country
and also dangerously and unknowingly to cyber criminals waiting to hit the gullible internet
user. So comes to web of national and international laws with it’s enforcing agencies and
intelligence to curb this menace of cyber crimes and protect the society from high-end,
sophisticated, high-tech criminals. The effectiveness of the implementation of the cyber laws
in India is a utmost important to protect our society new generation of crimes and criminals
and whether it has been successful in India or not is the present research question.
Introduction to main research Study:
The main aim research is to address the issues of prevention, investigation,
prosecution and punishment of cyber crimes by Indian law enforcing authorities in the first
level and in the second level about creating awareness, technical knowhow about the cyber
crimes for detection, prevention and investigation purposes through suitable training and
development programmes to a) investigating officers b) judicial officers c) internet centers d)
educational institutions and e) general public ( internet users) and in the third level the
research would try to devise suitable “enforcement and technical” models to prevent and free
the whole society from such sophisticated and dangerous crimes.
The statistics of Cyber Crimes1 in world:
The statistics that have been obtained and reported about demonstrate the seriousness
Internet crimes in the world. In a FBI survey in early 2004, 90 percent of the 500 companies
surveyed reported a security breach and 80 percent of those suffered a financial loss (Fisher
22). A national statistic in 2003 stated that four billion dollars in credit card fraud are lost
each year. Only two percent of credit card transactions take place over the Internet but fifty
percent of the four billion, mentioned before, are from the transaction online (Burden and
Palmer 5). All these finding are just an illustration of the misuse of the Internet and a reason
why Internet crime has to be slowed down. 1
Research methodology :
The research methodology focuses on the cyber law enforcement systems in
Karnataka, it’s officials and executives wing which include the top-police officers, sub-
inspectors and other intelligence officials (respondents of the research survey) involved in the
investigation of cyber crimes in Karnataka and the judicial officers who administer justice
and have administered justice in the cyber related cases in Mysore and Bangalore. The
research would also like to hold discussions and interviews with the information technology
training wing at High court ( in charge IT training of judicial officers) and in the Karnataka
police head quarters which is in charge of training the investigating officers and other
supporting regular and technical staff. This would be done to understand and research into the
level and sufficiency of the training modules and to understand if any lacunas are there in
training delivery and if any improvement and updation is required for the internet technology
training given to these officials. The last but not the least the personnel operating in cyber
cafes and internet centers and educational institutions using exhaustive internet to know
about the types of internet crimes that could happen and the precaution they have taken in
this regard and the know what improvements in prevention systems are required to prevent
further internet crimes in India.