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Prashant Mali receiving award from Actor Makrand Deshpande  Advocate Prashant Mali Got Best Cyber and Privacy lawyer of the year by the hands of Makrand Deshpande , other awardees include Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar, ex Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale , VC of University of Mumbai, Hon. Sharad Pawar  n others . Lop Devendra Phadnavis and MP Sanjay Raut were chief guests  Earlier Lt. Balasaheb Thakre and Lt. Lata Mangeshkar we’re also recipients of the same award.  #award #cybercrime #privacy #lawyer #law #follow #media #mumbai #cybersecurity #publicpolicy #IamChevening #IVLP #media #news

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 this decision, it will be apt to say that an online buyer may

Ransom-payers are also the cause of ransomware proliferation: Prashant Mali The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins Nikita Puri   July 1, 2017 Last Updated at 21:20 IST Operations at a terminal of the country’s largest container port,  Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust  in Mumbai, came to a standstill earlier this week. The process of loading and unloading containers was halted as the port’s computers shut down after a major  cyber attack  that swept across the globe. The aggressiveness of the malware showed that such attacks were capable of bringing both corporate and government networks to a sudden halt. The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins.  Cyber law  expert  Prashant Mali , also an advocate at the Bombay High Court, tells  Nikita Puri  how to prevent mass-scale civil disruptions that future cyber attacks can result in. Edited excerpts:   First  we had individual com

Navy man gets 2 years Jail for Child Pornography, cyber crime in India : Cyber crime conviction By Prashant Mali In the case of Dilip Kumar Vs State of Telangana  the accused (who is working in Navy then) is convicted for two years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 15,000 fine. The story: Accused has same Family name "Sinha" as the Victim  from  Hyderabad. Accused, a Navy Personnel belong to State of Bihar and was posted on INS Shikra,  Mumbai. Accused had sent a facebook request to this victim minor girl, who also happens to be a child of high ranking defence personnel . The victim after finding the same surname was obliged to accept the facebook friend request. Accused then proposes the victim minor girl for a online relationship, to which she refuses. Accuses starts enticing and harassing the victim by sending her obscene, vulgar, abusing and insulting chat messages. Victim then confides this to her parent, who also tries to persuade the accused not to repeat s

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 establishment for the per