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

How to Relieve Cyber Police in India of needless burden and make them more focused

We all agree that use of Cyber space by Common people is on the increase and has reached a level where we are worried about the internet/Mobile addiction and its adverse impact on the society. Government itself is encouraging a higher … Continue reading

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Social Media Use for Abuse…root cause is Privacy and Anonymity..Solution is on hands..if we care..

Eminent lawyers of the country seem to have taken up a fight against Social Media for enabling “abusive content”. According to the news reports, they are demanding that Supreme Court should consider “Regulation of Social Media”. However, we need to … Continue reading

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How to Avoid Shapoorji-Pallonji dilemma in e-tendering?

We continue our academic debate on the recent case of Shapoorji Pallonji Vs MHADA  in which the company challenged the e-tender bidding process followed for the award of a major Rs 11000 contract  for reconstruction of BDD Chawls and successfully obtained a … Continue reading

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The e-tendering issues in Maharashtra.. “Uploading” is not the same as “submitting” the tender

The decision of the Mumbai High Court in the Writ Petition (L) 2070 of 2017 filed by the well known Construction company Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Limited against the State of Maharashtra in respect of an e-Tender rejection has … Continue reading

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The Pandora’s box of Technical Glitches opened……2: MHDA and NIC need to take note

This is in continuation of the earlier article The essence of the judgement in the case of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Limited vs State of Maharashtra in the disputed e-Tender rejection case is that An e-tender cannot be denied … Continue reading

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The Pandora’s box of Technical Glitches opened….The e-tender judgement in Maharashtra…1

An interesting judgement has come forth from the High Court of Maharashtra in the Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Limited vs State of Maharashtra which has debated some less known aspects of Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA2000) and the use … Continue reading

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