Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, May 2: With increase in cyber crimes and to create awareness among the people, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) in collaboration with District Police Udhampur, organized an awareness camp at Degree College Udhampur, here today, where dozens of college students were taught how to protect themselves from such crimes.
The program was presided over by Principal District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Parihar, Chairman District Legal Services Authority Udhampur and Secretary DLSA Sandeep Kour. Beside others, Deputy Commissioner Udhampur Piyush Singla, Additional Session Judge C L Bavouria, Principal Degree College Dr N K Resutra, Sub Judge Spl Mobile Magistrate Romesh Lal, Additional Mobile Magistrate Anjana Rajput and District Mobile Magistrate Ajay Kumar, retainer lawyer Sanjeet Kumar were present on the occasion .
Speaking on the occasion, resource person M Y Kichloo, Senior Superintendent of Police J&K Police (Security wing) informed the students about various types of cyber crimes and their repercussions .He said that every minute, on an average, nearly 80 people in India fall prey to some form of cyber crime and the awareness initiatives in place to prevent them are not enough.
The expert in Cyber Security taught students how to use social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and other operational sites with safety. He also informed students about the cyber crime, using social networking sites, and how to tackle the situation if their email id or the profiles on social networking site got hacked.
He also informed where to complaint if such situations do occur. He advised the students not to share their id passwords, bank account details and other personal or professional details on internet and also not to click or open any lottery win advertisements or job advertisements blinking on the window as they are the fake ones.
Chairman DLSA, Principal District and Session Judge Sanjay Parihar and Secretary DLSA, Sandeep Kour , while addressing the gathering, said that as the cyber crimes increase every now and then with growing adoption of internet and smartphones, DLSA felt need to aware students and people about Cyber Crime and Cyber security. They informed students about cyber laws and taught them how to protect themselves from such crimes.
Secy DLSA informed that the DLSA will hold such legal awareness programmes on regular intervals to benefit the masses.
Principal of the Degree College Udhampur, Dr Nutan K Resutra presented a formal vote of thanks.
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