🔆The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA)
✅It was enforced on 24th April 1999. ✅This law was specifically made to deal with rising organized crime in Maharashtra and especially in Mumbai due to the underworld. ✅For instance, the definition of a terrorist act is far more stretchable in MCOCA than under POTA. MCOCA mentions organized crime and what is more, includes `promotion of insurgency’ as a terrorist act. ✅Under the Maharashtra law a person is presumed guilty unless he is able to prove his innocence. ✅MCOCA does not stipulate prosecution of police officers found guilty of its misuse.
🔆The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA)
✅It was enforced on 24th April 1999. ✅This law was specifically made to deal with rising organized crime in Maharashtra and especially in Mumbai due to the underworld. ✅For instance, the definition of a terrorist act is far more stretchable in MCOCA than under POTA. MCOCA mentions organized crime and what is more, includes `promotion of insurgency’ as a terrorist act. ✅Under the Maharashtra law a person is presumed guilty unless he is able to prove his innocence. ✅MCOCA does not stipulate prosecution of police officers found guilty of its misuse.
In many cases, the content resembled that of the marketplaces found on the dark web, a group of hidden websites that are popular among hackers and accessed using specific anonymising software.“We have recently been witnessing a 100 per cent-plus rise in Telegram usage by cybercriminals,” said Tal Samra, cyber threat analyst at Cyberint.The rise in nefarious activity comes as users flocked to the encrypted chat app earlier this year after changes to the privacy policy of Facebook-owned rival WhatsApp prompted many to seek out alternatives.
For some time, Mr. Durov and a few dozen staffers had no fixed headquarters, but rather traveled the world, setting up shop in one city after another, he told the Journal in 2016. The company now has its operational base in Dubai, though it says it doesn’t keep servers there.Mr. Durov maintains a yearslong friendship from his VK days with actor and tech investor Jared Leto, with whom he shares an ascetic lifestyle that eschews meat and alcohol.
