Monthly Archives: April 2017

Creating a Protection for Indian Companies from European hegemony

The first question that an Indian Company needs to satisfy for itself is whether it is at all exposed to the provisions of the dreaded GDPR and if so whether there is need to respond. It must be clarified that … Continue reading

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NPCI and RBI cannot absolve themselves of responsibility in UPI Fraud

The recent Bank of Maharashtra UPI Fraud in which Rs 25 crores were siphoned off from the Bank through UPI payment requests which were honoured by the system though there were no funds in the accounts, as well as the report … Continue reading

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The GDPR Threat hangs over the head of Indian IT Processors

Indian IT industry has a high stake in the outsourced business from US and EU, UK markets. A good part of this outsourced business involves processing of “Personal Data” of data subjects of the respective country. As regards US, India … Continue reading

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Telengana Court poses a question to Supreme Court on Section 66A

Recently a judgements from Hyderabad under ITA 2000/8 has raised interesting debates in Cyber Law Circles which make a good case study for academic purpose. Presently we are commenting on the basis of the following two news reports Times of … Continue reading

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Notice through WhatsApp… Mr Khemka’s order

This is in continuation of the previous article “Is a WhatsApp Notice valid in law?… A Case for Cyber Notice service“. The copy of the order of Mr Khemka is now available and reproduced here. Some key observations in the order are … Continue reading

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Is a WhatsApp Notice valid in law?… A Case for Cyber Notice service

A Financial Commissioner (FC) Court in Haryana, considered as a quasi judicial body headed by the IAS officer Ashok Khemka has created what can be considered as a “Double Edged Precedent” by sending a “Summons” through WhtsAPP. (I suppose thsi … Continue reading

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