: As mini Jamtaras mushroom, need for time-bound trials in cybercrimes #IndiaNEWS #News New Delhi: Cybercrimes in different forms have seen a phenomenal increase with small town scammers in the aftermath

As mini Jamtaras mushroom, need for time-bound trials in cybercrimes #IndiaNEWS #News
New Delhi: Cybercrimes in different forms have seen a phenomenal increase with small town scammers in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the present digital users are more vulnerable, making the situation highly demanding for a dedicated law, says an expert.
Referring to the model of crimes committed in Jamtara, Jharkhand, infamously known as the phishing capital of India, Dr. Pavan Duggal, Supreme Court lawyer and Chairman of the International Commission on Cyber Security Law, said there has been a surge of mini-Jamtaras since the pandemic.
We are seeing the mushrooming of the Jamtara model of cybercrime in India. Earlier there was one place, where cyber crimes were committed as a community activity. The current digital users accessing cyberspace are mostly without any appropriate knowledge or training financial cybercrime including online financial fraud along with identity theft and cyberattacks are the major cybercrimes in the Indian context, he told IANS.
In India, cybercrimes have been there for the last more than two decades. but the outbreak of Covid is the golden age of cybercrimes. During this period, there was a massive increase in cybercrime in India. Lets not deviate from the official figures. The Bureau of Police Research and Development is talking only about registered cases whereas in India the underreporting of cybercrime is so massive that official figures wont tell you, he said.
Crime and loss
Cybercriminals want to work the least and gain the most so they have been trying various methods through bank accounts, says Duggal, adding that the Indian cybercriminals are not great tech-savvy or well educated but they have mastered the misuse of the technology for criminal purposes.
We can see people in rural areas committing cyber crimes using small tools and mobiles and the loss of cybercrime is increasing. There are no officials figures in India about the loss due to cyber crimes
As per rough estimates, the global losses due to cybercrimes were more than trillion in 2021 and the world is expected to lose more than trillion by the end of 2022.
Its a very strange situation. But India as a nation is not at all prepared to deal with the deluge of cybercrime. the Indian legal frameworks are not ready. India does not have any dedicated law on cybercrime, so far, he pointed out.
Law is the only hope
We only have a particular Chapter XI of the Information Technology Act that deals with cyber offences. Plus certain cybercrimes are governed under the Indian Penal Code, Duggal says.
Narrating his experiences, he said: I was a counsel for a complainant for Indias first cybercrime conviction in 2003. but after a couple of convictions, India began to see a drought or famine of convictions of cybercrime.

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