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

It is not Banks but the Customers who have lost Rs 88,553 an hour…

Times of India carried a report today headlined ‘Banks lost Rs 88553 an hour to Cybercrime in last 3 years”. According to the report, the total money lost from April 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017 due to Cyber Crime … Continue reading

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Let’s Not misinterpret the Sonu@Amar judgement on Section 65B

This is to ensure that we donot mis-interpret the judgement in the Sonu@Amar Vs State of Haryana going only by the discussions on legal issues that the Judge has added in the Judgement before arriving at the final judgement. My … Continue reading

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It is “Alias Amar” Vs Anvar and the winner is …..Section 65B

It was way back on 17th October 2000 that ITA 2000 was notified and long with it the Indian Evidence Act 1872 got amended with several new sections being added to address the issue of Electronic Evidence. One such issue … Continue reading

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Deletion of CCTV footage could be an offence under Section 65/66 of ITA 2008 and Section 204 of IPC

In the recent days, we have heard of many instances when CCTV footages have gone missing in important Criminal investigations. This will frustrate the investigations and completely destroy the case. Deletion of CCTV footages have been alleged in the case … Continue reading

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Can Criminal cases be revisited if Sec 65B certificate is absent?

In what can be considered as a serious concern to criminal cases where decisions have already been taken based on electronic evidence without Sec 65B certificate, Supreme Court has debated the issue of challenge of Electronic Evidence at the appeal … Continue reading

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CERT-FIN… the proposed Security Czar for BFSI sector

We have discussed some aspects of the organizational structure for the proposed CERT-Fin in our previous article (See here).  Let’s now see some of the other aspects of the report on which public comments can be submitted upto July 31, … Continue reading

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