“Cyber Policing: Evidentiary Value of Electronic Records”

Abstract

The use of internet has become the part and parcel of every educated person in this world. It has opened the gates to the information superhighway connecting the rest of the world to whole a lot of information and to all corners of the world at once. It connects the person sitting in the remote corner of the home or office to the entire world thorough the information highway called passionately web, cyber, etc. It connects everyone to his office, bank, electricity dept., water works, travel service, bazaar, bookshop, friend in other country and also dangerously and unknowingly to cyber criminals waiting to hit the gullible internet user. So comes to web of national and international laws with its enforcing agencies and intelligence to curb this menace of cyber-crimes and protect the society from high-end, sophisticated, high-tech criminals. The effectiveness of the implementation of the cyber laws in India is an utmost important to protect our society new generation of crimes and criminals and whether it has been successful in India or not.

Success in any field of human activity leads to crime that needs mechanisms to control it. Legal provisions should provide assurance to users, empowerment to law enforcement agencies and deterrence to criminals. Back in 1990, less than 100,000 people were able to log on to the Internet worldwide. Now around 500 million people are hooked up to surf the net around the globe[1].