Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

Section 65B has become a tool to create judicial anarchy in India

The SLP order of the Supreme Court in the case of Shafhi Mohammad Vs State of Himachal Pradesh dated 30th January 2018 in which a two member bench of the Court passed an order which was clearly meant to over … Continue reading

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Role of Potential Digital Evidence in criminal investigations

During the last week, Bengaluru witnessed a disturbing display of lawlessness by a group led by a son of a Congress MLA. The case involved a brawl in a Pub called “Farzi Cafe” in UB City in which another person … Continue reading

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Appointment of Chairmen and Directors of Banks is the Weak link that caused PNB fraud

“Where there is Money, there will be Fraud” is a truth which all traditional Bankers know. Hence the essence of Good Banking is building security into the culture of the organization and into its systems. The legacy paper based systems … Continue reading

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Let’s tighten our seat belts and let Mr Narendra Modi shake up and clean the Indian Banking system

After the surfacing of the Nirav Modi-Mehul Chokshi scam in PNB, media is on its own interpretation some of which are politically motivated and some are born out of lack of information. According to NDTV and some other media, the … Continue reading

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Contingent Electronic Evidence and Evidence Drop Box, Concepts which we should be aware of..

After the Basheer judgement, there has been several discussions on the Section 65B (IEA) certification of electronic evidence for “Admissibility”. I suppose some clarity has dawned on the community with these discussions, though there are some areas which continue to … Continue reading

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RBI is making a mistake in the PNB fraud case

As expected, media is crying as if Rs 11500 crores have been lost by PNB. Congress as expected is talking as if it is not Nirav Modi who is in question but Mr Narendra Modi himself. Both may be excused … Continue reading

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