Data Security Indian BPOs Karan Bahree

BPO sting: IT Act petition asks Govt to get cracking
Petition calls for roping in cyber response team, CERT-IN.

Pragya Singh

New Delhi, June 28: KARAN Bahree sold data hacked from Indian call centres to The Sun’s reporters. Or did he? To find out, wait another week.

A petition filed with the Delhi government today requests that law enforcement agencies access the CD and ‘‘dossier’’ prepared by The Sun reporter Oliver Harvey, investigate their contents and block the tabloid’s website in India.

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The petition, filed by Sarbajit Roy, has been presented to the Adjudication Officer under the Information Technology Act, 2000, in the Delhi government to which, the government hasto respond within a week.

It also calls for roping in cyber enforcement authorities like the Computer Emergency Response Team, India (CERT-IN) to dredge out the truth.

The government, the petition says, must examine if the data allegedly sold by Bahree was made accessible by the British banks themselves.

‘‘It is entirely possible that Respondent No. 5 (Harvey) may have been sold data provided by the British Banks itself, which he is proclaiming abroad to be hacked data from Indian BPOs and thereby defaming legitimate Indian BPOs and our nation and damaging India’s economy,’’ says the petition.The truth will emerge only if a forensic examination of the CD is conducted.

Roy’s petition is the first that can put the IT Act in motion.In the investigations so far, none of the Indian law-enforcement agencies have contacted the London Police, which has already registered a case.

Speaking to The Indian Express over the phone, London Police’s spokesperson Orna Joseph said,‘‘Any Indian authorities wanting to contact us over the case can do so.’’ (With inputs from Raghvendra Rao)

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