BENGALURU: Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today said the fillip to adopting digital payment mechanisms by the Union Government will give rise to complex legal issues, requiring lawyers and judges capable of dealing with the nuances of digital revolution and legal dynamics of the changing digital world.
“The encouragement for adopting digital payment mechanisms by the Indian Government will inevitably give rise to complex legal issues to address shortly,” he said at the Karnataka State Judicial Officers Association’s 18th biennial Conference here.
A digitised world will help and prepare people for rise of unlawful activities and behaviour in the changing digital environment of the country, he said.
“We must view this development critically, not cynically,” the CJI said.
With the extension of digitisation to the banking and transaction services, concern about money laundering will also increase, he said.
Importantly, development of digital or e-communication infrastructure may itself seek legal recourse in cases involving several kinds of malware like ‘Trojan and worms’ leading to e-commerce services blackout, Justice Thakur said.
As judges one should understand that digitised society is at the threshold of dealing with major jurisprudential, as well as complex legal issues of “identification and promotion of rule of law in the digital world and on the Internet-based e-governance and e-commerce,” Thakur said. (AGENCIES)
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