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The Director of Central Bureau of Investigation, Shri U.S.Misra,
today suggested for enactment of laws against high-tech crimes
in the pattern of the laws enacted by the United Nations Commissions
on International Trade Laws (UNCITRAL) so that dual criminality
which is essential for deportation and extradition of criminals
could be easily established.
Shri Misra, who is heading an 8-member Indian delegation
to the 74th Interpol General Assembly being held at Berlin,
Germany, told the Interpol member countries to enter into
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT) so that high-tech
criminals could be deported as a rule and extradited in exceptional
cases. Shri Misra also suggested that developed countries
should transfer technology and impart effective operational
training, particularly in cyber forensics, to the investigators
in the developing countries.
Shri Misra, who is also the head of the National Central Bureau
(Interpol, New Delhi) said that as an emerging IT super power,
India is ideally placed to perform a nodal role in combating
high-tech crimes in the Asian region. He offered to train
policemen from other countries in the investigation of high-tech
crimes and exchange expertise with them under the expansive
mandate of the Interpol. In this context, Sri Misra pleaded
for speedy efforts to constitute mobile and multi –
member high – tech crime investigating units that can
be rushed at short notice to any country on request to assist
in the investigation. He further said that Interpol should
draft and implement a universal high-tech crime cooperation
charter.
Giving an overview of the situation in India, the CBI Director
said that the rapid growth of the IT Sector in India has made
business activities easier but the task of a police officer
tougher. He said that cyber crime is reported more from the
developed States of the country and metropolises and mainly
relate to publication and transmission of obscene material
(33%) and hacking (30%). Shri Misra said that 81% of the offenders
are in the age group of 18-45 while the rest are in the 45-60
age group.
On the efforts to tackle high-tech crimes in India, Shri
Misra said the IT Act of the country has made hacking and
cyber porn serious criminal offence. At the State level, cyber
crime investigation units have been set up, dedicated cyber
crime police stations have been established in the metros
and at the Central level, the CBI has set up a state-of-the-art
cyber crime investigation cell besides cyber forensics and
digital analysis center, he said. Apart from that, the CBI
Director said, two Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
have also been set up to provide protection to India’s
information assets. Stating that CBI has long experience in
handling these crimes, Shri Misra said that in the Purulia
Arms Drop case of 1995 a breakthrough was achieved only after
analyzing the ‘Tremble GPS’ found in the aircraft
and retrieving the erased files from the laptop of the prime
accused, Kim Davy. Similarly, in the ISRO Spying case of 1993,
rocketry and cryogenics were investigated, he added.
The four- day Interpol General Assembly is likely to focus,
among others, on organized crimes, drug trafficking, terrorism
and public security. Member countries, numbering 182, would
also be informed on the expansion and success of the Interpol’s
databases, such as those on stolen travel documents and Internet
child abuse.
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