They spend their time training cops how to handle cyber crimes.

They expend energy teaching people about Internet security, digital signatures and cryptography.

And, they also go around training corporates like Mahindra British Telecom, NSE, Satyam, Cognizant Technologies and NIIT among others on e-security and related issues. (Funds have to come in for basic support, right?)

And, they have on the board of their organization an impressive list of eminent professors of law like:

• William W. Fisher III, Harvard Law School, USA who is also co director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Director of the Harvard program on Legal History.
• LM Sornarajah, Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
• Lance B Williams, Director of IT and Entrepreneurship Clinic, Chicago-kent College of Law, Illinois.
• Michael L. Rustad, Director of High Technology Law Program, Suffolk University Law School, Boston.
• Alan Davidson, solicitor and barrister, Supreme Court of New South Wales and High Court of Australia.

Meet two young advocates, 29 year old Rohas Nagpal and 27 year old Debasis Nayak, founders of Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL), a non profit organization headquartered in Pune.

After completing their studies at Symbiosis Institute Pune, they headed straight to form this organization that conduct customized workshops in the e-security, digital signatures and cyber law for corporates, law firms and educational institutions.

Interestingly, ASCL is the only institution which conducts courses in IT law, and digital signatures and cryptography.

“Starting a cyber law school seemed the logical outcome after we graduated because we had a background of law and Internet security,” says Nagpal.

And, the roadmap for this duo?

“We have a number of enquiries from other state governments because I am sure that every police station like the way Karnataka has. Cyber crime is not going to end, if at all it will increase with extremely devious ways creeping in. We look forward to this challenge,” Nagpal smiled.

Birth of the cyber crime manual How did the cyber crime manual come about? “We have been training police officers in Mumbai, Pune and Karnataka – everyone felt that it would help if we had a manual. That was how the book was born.” The manual has been published by T.S. Murali Mohan of Paali Software Technologies, Bangalore and it is not for public sale but given to law enforcement community. And now, it has become a sort of a bible for cyber crime detectives.