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The United States-based International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), Microsoft and Interpol are giving training to Indian law-enforcers at the CBI Academy in Ghaziabad and Thiruvananthapuram, to hunt down delinquents who exploit the Net via blogs, photos, films, and file sharing.
As India comes to grips with the Nithari nightmarish, our first organised platform to counter cyber sex crimes against children is on its way. The latest move approaches India after 21 sessions throughout the globe. For the time being, it is a basic course, but for more advance session, it will take time. Before now 93 Interpol-member nations have taken part in the programme, and Germany is regarded as the best implementer including law enforcers and legislators working concurrently.
Microsoft's Rakesh Bakshi says,
The Company will be monitoring IP hits and behavioural pattern of MSN, Hotmail and Messenger users. "There are no statistics in India that measure the gravity of the crime, but cyber crimes overall increased by 38.6 per cent in 2005. We hope to create awareness that will impel legislation.
At present, Indian legislation on cyber sex crimes against children is exceedingly nebulous, considering the latest state of affairs, drastic measures to protect children against the online child sex is the hour of need. Child sex tourism, which has gone up in India as a result of onslaughts in Sri Lanka and Thailand; is potentially on the rise, and increasingly younger Internet users; as well as our social milieu where children are not taken acutely on such matters. The government will have to come around and take note.
