Meghalaya HC Judge calls for adaptation to tackle evolving cyber threats

: Judge of the Meghalaya High Court Justice HS Thangkhiew said that while technology has become an integral part of daily life—enabling online banking, shopping and work—it has also created new challenges.

He noted that modern crimes no longer require physical presence, are often transnational, involve victims across jurisdictions and lack traditional forms of evidence such as eyewitnesses.

The conventional tools used by law-enforcement agencies and courts, he said, have become inadequate in dealing with these evolving threats.

Justice Thangkhiew was addressing at the inauguration of a training programme on “cybercrime & the court: law, evidence & practice” organized by the Meghalaya State Judicial Academy (MSJA) in collaboration with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) und