Nasscom supported cyber crime lab in Bangalore

The Nasscom supported cyber crime lab will open in the first week of November in Bangalore.

Speaking to CyberMedia News, Sanjay Vir Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Economic Offenses, Corp of Detectives (COD), Bangalore, said that the lab will be a public-private partnership initiative.

Canara Bank has come forward with a funding of Rs 40 lakh towards the project, that includes other partners like Infosys, Micro Academy, Accenture, Motorola and Dell. These companies would provide training.

A Nasscom nominated manager would look after the lab, which has the capacity to train 36 people at a time. “The lab will provide training to police inspectors, prosecutors and metropolitan magistrates,” said Singh.

Nasscom has already set up cybercrime labs in Pune and Mumbai, but the Bangalore lab would be the first to be attached to the CyberCrime police station.

Singh is doing his bit to spread awareness on the IT Act 2000 among the police and also among the legal fraternity. The Karnataka Judicial Academy had introduced a course in Cyber Laws in September last year.

While the IT Act 2000 has been in existence for the last six years, the number of convictions is strikingly low due to factors like lack of awareness, not just among the public but also the legal fraternity. “They (lawyers) feel that they need to know technology to take up cyber crime cases,” said Singh.

Besides this, around 51 per cent of the victims prefer to drop their case owing to fear of negative publicity.

Last year, there were three convictions under the IT Act, while this year has seen two convictions so far, related to obscene e-mails.

Singh said that this year, there is an increase in Orkut related obscenity complaints. Around eight – 10 such incidents were brought to the notice of the cyber crime police station in Bangalore.

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