Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

To the layman, a chip may be just a chip but its utility is more than just making your smartphone work. Even screens, external slots, camera and other attachments have enough hardware capability on them to act as potential hack vectors. There have been multiple researches on this point that a simple chip replacement or addition can compromise your smartphone significantly. The major source of such hacks have undoubtedly been the mobile repair centers. More so in India than anywhere else, there is a workaround presented for any hardware glitch. Glitches that the manufacturers themselves never claim to fix. Your iPhone charging port goes wrong; the authorized service centers only offer to replace the phone at a staggering cost whereas a local market guy will replace the charging port for $10.  The source of these replacement parts are unknown, all the repair centers know is that they get it without any branding or packaging but they have good results. In what researchers are calling ...

Landmark Decision for Online Marketplaces: Online buyers can register a case on sellers anywhere in India. By Prashant Mali        Spicejet Ltd Vs Ranju Aery       The issue of jurisdiction has made a lot of people sweat in the recent past since the Internet has come into play. With the nation recognizing different forms of businesses that are Internet-dependent, the law has definitely had some catching up to do. I have personally utilized this independence day holiday to research all important legislation and case law in this matter and through this blog, I would like to make my research available for everyone to study. As a practicing Ecommerce Lawyer and Cyber thought leader of the country, I feel that this recent decision of Supreme Court dated  4th August 2017  in the case of Spicejet Ltd is  krantikari  or as it is referred to in Law, a landmark decision. As per the case law deduced from th...

Judgement Dowload link A  Judicial Magistrate  in Puri today sentenced a man to six years of imprisonment in a cyber pornography (A revenge Porn) case, stated to be the first such case. Puri Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Shibasis Giri also slapped a Rs-9,000 fine on the convict, Jayanta Kumar Das an alleged RTI activist, A fake profile was created by the accused in the name of the victim woman from Puri Township in a pornographic site, who then had uploaded the woman’s name, address, photo and phone number on a pornographic website in 2012 to take revenge against her husband. After her personal info was posed on the site, the victim started receiving calls from numerous persons enquiring about her interest in paid sex and wife swapping. The husband of the woman, a local journalist, had written about several cases involving the convict. The crime branch had arrested Das on September 18, 2012, following a complaint filed by the victim in July.He was...