Lakshmana Kailash K, a computer engineer, was wrongly arrested from his home in Bangalore in August 2007 for having defamed Shivaji on Orkut.com, he was tracked with the help of information shared by ISP, Bharti Airtel. He was taken to Pune and put behind bars, where he spent 50 days, 3 weeks after real culprits were nabbed.

 

Indonesia's parliament on 25 March passed a new information bill that criminalises the transmission of pornographic material on the web. In response, hackers defaced the website of Indonesia's information ministry. The hackers posted a message on the information ministry's website, saying: 'Prove that the law has not been made to cover government stupidity.' But later, the website could not be accessed, and would-be viewers were met only with the message, 'Access has been denied.'

Cyber Crime Statistics reveal that Women are the victims in majority of the case. Last month, 35 women lodged complaints with Kolkata cyber crime cell regarding fake profiles put up on various social networking websites. The head of the cyber crime cell says "Most of the complainants are members of Orkut. The impersonators used the photographs on the real profile to create a fake one. Fake profiles were also put up on other online social networks." Orkut has been facing lot of heat off late, even earlier in the week, Shiv Sainiks attacked Mumbai Cyber Cafes and damaged property to protest against Orkut. Read out a special article on 'Cyber Crime Against Women'

Asian Countries - Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia introduced Cyber Crime Bills/Acts last month.The Basis of the Sri Lankan Computer Crimes Bill is to criminalise attempts at unauthorised access to a computer, computer programme, data or information. Similarly, Thailaind's approved Cyber Crime Bill, gives officials power to crack down effectively on hacking and internet-related crimes through harsher punishments. Whereas, US brought in three new enactments to regulate Cyber Space, this included US sentate passing a new anti-spyware legislation I-SPY Act, Cyber Security Enhancement and Cyber Security Bill.