Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

Old headless CAT Going TDSAT Coming, The IT Act, 2000 is amended By Advocate Prashant Mali, Cyber Law Expert The government’s in response to a February 2015 report of a parliamentary standing committee that noted the absence of uniformity in the conditions of service of tribunals.  Government planned a large-scale reshuffle of tribunals, the government sought to reduce the number of these tribunals and bring parity in the service conditions of their officials. CAT (Cyber Appellate Tribunal) From 2011, has barely been functioning. It still pays out salaries to its employees but no judicial order has been passed nor has any case been heard for the last five years. A CAG audit had noted that after the retirement of the CAT’s last chairperson in June 2011, there has been no replacement appointed as of June 2016. However, members  and other staff continued to render services in the CAT since then and expenditure of Rs. 27.64 crore were incurred on its establ...

USA Citizen arrested for sharing child pornography in Hyderabad, India faces punishment under dreaded Child Porn Law. US Citizen  Mr. James Kirk Jones, 42 Years old  has been arrested for downloading and uploading child pornography in Hyderabad on 17/01/2017, cyber crime police of Telangana confiscated the accused laptop and other devices, which had child pornographic content. Jones is an Hyderabad-based MNC Employee. Interpol had tipped cyber police of telangana state about Jones and he had been under the cyber crime’s scanner then, this was after Interpol sent out information about his transfer of child porn content. Police traced Jones to his Madhapur residence in Cyberabad using his ip address. 29,288 items of child sexual abuse materials on the laptop, 490 GigaTribe profiles and 24 Twitter handles/profiles sharing child pornography as well as an iPhone and an external hard drive containing adult pornography was found in the raid. Jones confessed to investigators that he h...

New Age Cyber Crimes : 2016 New trends in cybercrime are emerging all the time, with estimated costs to the global economy running to billions of dollars. In the past, cybercrime was committed mainly by individuals or small groups. Today, we are seeing highly complex cybercriminal networks bring together individuals from across the globe in real time to commit crimes on an unprecedented scale. Criminal organizations turning increasingly to the Internet to facilitate their activities and maximize their profit in the shortest time. The crimes themselves are not necessarily new – such as theft, fraud, illegal gambling, sale of fake medicines – but they are evolving in line with the opportunities presented online and therefore becoming more widespread and damaging . Identity theft Identity theft and fraud is one of the most common types of cybercrime. The term Identity Theft is used, when a person purports to be some other person, with a view to crea...