1 Aug : As part of efforts to check cyber crimes, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has said a Cyber Appellate Tribunal and other courts will be coming up in due course in different parts of the country.
A Cyber tribunal has already been set up in New Delhi as per section 40 of the IT Act, the CJI said addressing a Public awareness meeting on ‘Cyber Crimes Against Women’ at Kochi on Saturday.
Balakrishnan said there are practical difficulties in dealing with Cyber crime cases since the locality is not defined and hence it is difficult to identify perpetrators of such crimes.
Many website with obscene contents are registered abroad. Government can ban such websites, but it would not be right to clamp a blanket ban on all websites, he said.
He said many job and matrimonial websites are misused. There are multifarious ways in which cyber crimes are being committed, he added stressing the need for creating awareness about it.
Also present at the function, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said judges and law makers should formulate action plans to deal with cyber crimes and related issues.
“There is need to create more awareness among women about cyber crimes as it is the fairer sex who mostly become its victims, he said.
Earlier at the inaugural function, speakers stressed the need to amend laws appropriately to address the challenges thrown up by newer technologies.Justice Kurian Joseph said nearly 81 percent of children become victims of cyber crimes.
In Ernakulam alone, 22-25 cyber crimes are reported every month. He said there are 11 lakh cases pending in the state.
India is one of the very few countries to enact IT Act in 2000 which makes hacking, publishing of obscene material in the net and tampering of data punishable offences.
More courts needed to clear backlog of cases: CJI
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Saturday said that in an attempt to clear the backlog of cases more courts should be set up and regretted lack of co-operation from states in this regard.
“It is impossible to clear the pending cases without setting up sufficient number of new courts in different parts of the country,” he said, inaugurating year-long valedictory of the 125 anniversary celebrations of Irinjalakuda law court.
The Chief Justice said cooperation from Kerala government in this regard was also not enough.
He said several CBI cases, in which eminent personalities were implicated, were pending for the last 15 years.
While stressing the need for delivering speedy justice, he sought the co-operation of state governments for setting up new courts to avoid undue delay in disposing of pending cases.
Balakrishnan said 70 per cent of the cases filed in various courts of the country were settled in a “reasonable” period, but 30 per cent remained pending and the pendency could be removed only after setting up of new courts wherever they were essential, he said.
He said his best efforts to clear the backlog of cases since his assumption of office of CJI in January 2007, had not yielded desired results.
The Supreme court had requested the Union Government to set up 4000 more courts in the country.A request had also been made to the appropriate authority to set up 80 more CBI special courts, he added.