Disputandum is a forum created by a group of lawyers
Disputandum is a forum created by a group of lawyers Mr Jitender Goel, Sartej Singh Narula, Shrey Goel, Shreya Vasistha Goel, Shvetanshu Goel, Aditya Dassaur, Rahul Aggarwal, Anirudh Nanda and Mannat Anand of Punjab and Haryana High Court who provide a platform for lawyers like them to discuss, deliberate and debate over intriguing topics of prime public interest.
A panel discussion on cybercrime was organised where the panelists comprised of ‘the who is who’ of legal luminaries, members of the film industry, and the social media fraternity. The first discussion had a panel presided over by Mr Navdeep Singh Virk, ADGP (Law & Order) Haryana, Mr Tanveer Ahmed Mir, an Advocate, Prof Shruti Bedi, a Law Professor at UILS, Panjab University and, Ms Dolly Singh, a Content Creator, moderated by Mr Manu Chaturvedi, an Advocate. The session saw a participation of over a hundred participants who enlightened themselves on the topic of cyberbullying and identity theft. The discussion focused on the concept of cyberbullying, the non-existence of a proper legislative framework to govern, and a lack of procedural machinery to enforce against its perpetrators.
It was collaborated by the experience sharing by Ms Dolly Singh who is exposed to cyberbullying on an everyday basis. Mr Singh highlighted the existence of a robust mechanism comprising of seven agencies to deal with such crimes and further the discussion voiced the need for a law to effectively handle all forms of cybercrime.
The second-panel discussion between Mr Rajinder Singh, ex DGP, Punjab, Mr Pavan Duggal, Advocate and Cyber Law Expert, Ms Zareen Khan, an Actress and Dr Navjeet Sidhu Kundal, an Assistant Professor of Law, was moderated by Mr Tariq Khan, an Advocate which examined cyber trolling and prohibited content. It was a detailed discussion which aimed to provide inputs to draft a proper policy framework with a study of different issues in cybercrime such as cyber trolling, cyber harassment, and cyberstalking, and pointed out various loopholes in the existing legislative framework under the Information Technology Act, 2000, (“the IT Act”) and, discussed solutions to report cybercrime and to seek an adequate remedy.
“Internet is a paradigm in a place which never sleeps and never forgets. It is an unforgiving medium”, said Mr Duggal commenting on issue where he suggested the need to be careful first, and vigilant later. The panel discussions emphasized the need for sensitization in the public, the involvement of the educational institutions, and a requirement to make both the policy and the machinery, people-friendly.
Both events were streamed live on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. The event received endorsement by Mr Aparshakti Khurana, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Niranjan Iyengar, and Inder Sahani who shared a powerful message against cybercrime and extended their best wishes to support Team Disputandum in their effort.
You can checkout the panel discussion at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHfXj76buc&feature=youtu.be
