Cyber Crime & Cyber law training program for 30 Judicial Officers was inaugurated by ADG CID Mahesh M Bhagwat IPS today at the prestigious Dr. MCRHRD Institute, Hyderabad.
CID is the Nodal Agency to conduct these programs in the State of Telangana. As per the guidelines of the MHA in CCPWC and in collaboration with MCHRD a Cyber Crimes & Cyber Laws training program for 30 Judicial officers of rank Junior Civil Judges is being conducted for 3 days starting from 27.03.2023 to 29.03.2023.
CID has conducted “Awareness Programs on Cyber Crime and Cyber Law” for 100 Public Prosecutors in 4 sessions and 12 Judicial Officers, Additional Sessions Judges in Batch I, and now in Batch II, 30 Judicial officers i.e., newly recruited Junior Civil Judges are going to undergo this training.
The main objective of training is to impart knowledge on various kinds of Cyber Crimes with special focus on social media related crimes and investigation skills to handle them.
Following Resource persons will train the Judicial officers – Umapathi Retd. IGP, Dr. Sai Sushanth Samudrala, Cyber Law expert &Techno legal consultant, Srinivas Busarapu Cyber Security expert , B. Ravi Kumar Reddy DSP V&E also a Cybercrime investigation expert, P. Padma Inspector, TS Police, IO in CCPS, Hyderabad City.
During the Inaugural function Chief Guest ADG CID Mahesh M Bhagwat interacted with the Judicial Officers and said that Cybercrime is a future crime and reiterated the fact that in future every Law Enforcement Agency and Judicial Officer needs to learn in depth about the various MOs in Cybercrimes.
He said that in today’s times every person who uses internet is prone to become a victim of cybercrime. While saying so he cited an example of a victim who was browsing an innocent looking website and became prey to a cyber criminal .He further mentioned a few cases like the organ trade case where the victim saw an Ad on social media for the need of organ and how the fraudster sent him home after taking the organ and paid him 10% of the promised amount of money. Similarly youth are attracted by cybercriminals for technical jobs but they end up becoming criminals as they are forced to commit Cyber Crimes.
He added that vulnerability of a person to cybercrime can be reduced to a great extent if they use an alphanumeric special character inclusive, complicated password for all their online accounts that is difficult to crack by fraudsters online. Password he said must be changed once in three months and one should never use easy passwords which is a common mistake committed by many people. While specifying about vulnerability to cybercrime he mentioned the various steps taken by Telangana State Police to combat Cyber Crime.
Sridevi Ayaluri, Director IT&CD, Dr.MCRHRD Institute, Yadagiri IPS, SP Cyber Crimes CID, Lavanya NJP, SP I/C Cyber crimes CID, Guna Shekhar DSP, Cyber Crimes CID, Ch. Sireesha Faculty IT & Course Coordinator have participated in the program.