Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime

‘Hacking’, ‘Cyber bullying’, ‘Cyber Stalking’, ‘Cyber Security’ are words that actually send chills run down your spine. According to the 2016 Norton Security Report, 62% of teenagers in India are at a very high risk of being cyber bullied or stalked on the social media sites like facebook, twitter, instagram, viber , etc.

Though our world is changing at an immense speed and resolutions our taking place, technology, a social evil has still not overcome its corns.

Under the IT Act, crime cases that were in 2013 reached upto 7,003cases. According to the latest NCRB

Data, 98% of those accused of cyber stalking and bullying are men of 20-30 years.

Mostly, the people who commit this crime are very much known to the victims. One such case took place of which I came to know from a well-known newspaper. The girl who was in her tender teens made a facebook account. However, after sometime, she started getting unknown messages. Like most of us, she was also not allowed on the social media sites by her parents and thus, got scared and did not tell her parents. But when the messages started increasing, she did not know what to do, helplessly and unwillingly she told it to her mom.

No sooner, did she tell her mom about the account and the messages, than her mother deleted her account. They also reported the case to the police. However, a fake account of the girl’s name and picture was created and her friends and other family members started getting unwanted, foul messages. The girl’s family reported the account again. Though, every time the authorities blocked one, a new one popped out. This continued for 2 years. In the third year, the culprit was found. In fact, the man was their neighbor living in the colony and knew the girl and her family.

It feels really bad when I hear such devastating and disheartening stories. However, unwillingly, the law is the mute spectator as cyber crime continues to flourish.

Esha Malhotra

8B

Diamond