In Shraddha Walkar murder, Bombay HC blames 'access to material on internet' - Hindustan Times

Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta connected Saturday flagged rising cybercrimes crossed the country. Invoking the execution of Mumbai pistillate Shraddha Walker by her live-in partner, who chopped her assemblage into 35 pieces and dumped them successful the forests of Delhi's Chhatarpur, Justice Datta said the lawsuit represents of the flipside of the entree to net successful this time and age.

Addressing a seminar, 'Dispute Resolution Mechanisms successful Telecom, Broadcasting, IT and Cyber Sectors', organised by Telecom Dispute Statement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) successful Pune connected Saturday, Justice Datta said, "You person conscionable work successful the newspapers astir definite stories astir emotion successful Mumbai, and fearfulness successful Delhi (Shraddha Walkar case), each these crimes are being committed due to the fact that determination is truthful overmuch entree to the worldly connected the internet. Now I americium definite that the Government of India is reasoning successful the close direction. The Indian Telecommunication measure is determination and we necessitate definite robust authorities to tackle each the situations if so we are to execute our extremity of keeping our preamble committedness of securing justness for each our citizens' fraternity to clasp the dignity of each individual."

"New instruments are being invented successful the caller age. In 1989, we did not person immoderate mobile phones. Two oregon 3 years later, we came to person pagers. Then we had those large Motorola mobile handsets and present they person condensed into tiny phones that are equipped with everything that 1 tin imagine. However, they could besides beryllium hacked by anybody, making it an onslaught connected our privacy."

Stressing the request to person determination benches successful enactment with the National Green Tribunal Act, for proceeding specified cases, Justice Datta said, "We should research whether alternatively of having 1 main seat (TDSAT) successful Delhi, with sittings permitted astatine six different places, we should person determination benches successful enactment with the National Green Tribunal Act. The NGT has 5 benches each implicit India".

"These are precocious goals acceptable by our founding fathers. They had precise cautiously prepared our Constitution - the ultimate instrumentality of the country. Let america not neglect the Constitution," helium added.