Cafes to follow guidelines steps to combat cyber crimes

MALDA, July 31: The superintendent of police in Malda Mr. Satyajit Bandyopadhaya said that police would monitor cyber cafes in the district to put a stop to cyber crimes following the system issued in Kolkata.Though no instruction has come from the government till date regarding the system of monitoring cyber cafes in the district, we must consider the guideline and monitor the cyber cafes according to the guidelines”, said Mr. Bandyopadhayay. Guidelines frame for Kolkata cyber faces for the prevention of cyber crimes a few months ago were not issued to the districts. After the recent bomb scare in Kolkata through email the state government reportedly asked the district magistrates to consider the move. According to the Malda SP, the district police do no have a list of cyber cafes running here and police did not instruct the café owners to maintain records of internet users. Even the district police did not have information about cafes in rural town such as Chanchal, Gazole and Kaliachak, close to the India Bangladesh border.There are more than six cafes running in English Bazaar town where hundreds of people including marketing representative, professionals visit the cafes. Mr Subhasis Choudhury, who runs a cyber cafe said, “Till date no police officer informed us about the system of maintaining records of known and unknown internet users, but in the interest of the country we would keep record of the original name and address of unknown internet users". n SNS