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VII. REFERENCES
VII. CONCLUSION
[1]
Change is inevitable and the dilemmas that advancement in Introduction to Indian Cyber Law (2014) by Rohas
technology poses cannot be avoided, the truth is that the Nagpal, Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune, India
criminals have changed their method and have started
relying of the advanced technology, and in order to deal [2]
with them the society the legal and law enforcement Cyber Crime (2003) by R.K. Suri and T.N. Chhabra,
authorities, the private corporations and organizations will Pentagon Press, New Delhi, India.
also have to change. Further such experts must not only be
knowledgeable but must also be provided with necessary [3]
technical hardware and software so that they can International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
efficiently fight the cyber criminals. Thus necessary Kandpal & Singh Vol. 2. No.4 ISSN: 2277-1921
facilities must be established in various parts of the country 156 Online version available at: www.crdeep.org
so that crime in the virtual world can be contained20.
Another aspect which needs to be highlighted is that a [4]
culture of continuous education and learning needs to be Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber Crimes, Computer
inculcated amongst the legal and the law enforcement Forensics and Legal Perspectives (2012) by Nina Godbole
authorities because the Information Technology field is a and Sunil Belapure, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi,
very dynamic field as the knowledge of today becomes India.
obsolete in a very short time. Lastly the preamble of the
Information Technology Act 2000 provides that the act was [5]
passed with the objective to give legal recognition for http://www.philstar.com/business/2013/03/12/918801/stud
transactions carried out by means of electronic data y-social-networks-new-haven-cybercrime
interchange and other means of e-commerce, further the http://www.symantec.com/en/in/about/news/release/article.
act has also made amendments to the Indian Penal Code jsp?prid=20130428_01
1860, Indian Evidence Act 1872, The Bankers Books of http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Evidence Act 1891, and the Reserve Bank of India Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_crime
1934 for facilitating legal recognition and regulation of the
commercial activities. Though this objective of the act is
not to suppress the criminal activity, this act has defined
certain offences and penalties to smother such omissions,
which is understood to come within the characterization of
cybercrimes. From this it can be inferred that the law
cannot afford to be static, it has to change with the
changing times and viz. cyber space this is all the more