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‘Treaty needed to catch accused in cyber crime’

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Many of those involved are from other countries: Tandon

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Discussion: Rajesh Tandon, Presiding Officer, Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal with Home Minister V.S. Acharya at the valedictory function of the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit in Bangalore on Friday.

BANGALORE: Rajesh Tandon, Presiding Officer of the Cyber Regulation Appellate Tribunal, has expressed the need for an international treaty to catch persons involved in cyber crimes.

Speaking at the valedictory function of the two-day Bangalore Cyber Security Summit on Friday, Mr. Tandon said with the cyber space being wide crimes were being committed by persons outside India.

Though the Information Technology Act provided for taking action against intermediaries involved in the crime, it had become difficult for investigation agencies to secure these intermediaries as many were from other countries.

India could take the lead in having an international treaty on cyber crime. “This treaty can be considered as a private or a public international law and persons involved can be tried accordingly, rather than invoking the local laws,” he said. Earlier, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Economic Offences) Malini Krishnamurthy highlighted some of the problems faced by investigation agencies.

She said there had been instances where Google Earth had been used by perpetrators to identify the places to be attacked. Though the IT Act provided for getting information from other countries through Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the law was not clear as to the way the data was transferred to the investigation agency.

Home Minister V.S. Acharya said the State Government would shortly sign a memorandum of understanding for setting up the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System.

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