Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
NEW DELHI: Despite rampant rise in cyber crimes across the country, India’s only Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT) has been headless for over three years, resulting in increasing pendency of cyber crime cases. The delay by the government in appointing CAT Chairman has forced litigants to approach other higher courts which are already struggling with their own backlog of cases.The tribunal was created to adjudicate cyber crimes and disputes such as hacking, sending of offensive or false messages, receiving stolen computer resource, identity theft, cheating by personation, violation of privacy, domain name disputes and other cyber fraud cases as well as to decide on the compensation of such crimes. In the absence of a chairperson, the 12-member staff at CAT is forced to adjourn cases. CAT was set up in 2009 by the Centre following huge number of complaints reaching local courts that pertained to Internet fraud. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 2,876 cyber-crime cases were registered under IT Act in 2012 as against 1,791 cases (2011) leading to a rise of 60.6% cases. Though the government appointed Justice S K Krishnan of Madras High Court as a member in 2011, his term got over in 2012. As per […]
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