tele-justice India Style

The Government of India has taken nation-wide project to connect jails and district courts across the country via a tele-justice or video conferencing system. With the help of tele-justice, the accused can now be present in a court through a video link, established on ISDN lines, between the prison and the court. Indian States like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Bihar have already introduced tele-justice. In Maharashtra, more than 40 jails in and around Mumbai are connected to district level courts through video conferencing. The government is planning to connect 300 jails 2,000 courts through video-conferencing. Polycom, a global player in unified collaborative communications, is to deploy video conferencing equipment across various judiciaries and prisons in India....

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e-mail explaining that the sender was hired and already paid by someone to kill them

Fairfax County Police said officers have received several complaints of extortion attempts over the last few months. The e-mails are a scam, police said. In many cases, a person opens an e-mail explaining that the sender was hired and already paid by someone to kill them. The e-mail further states that the person could pay a fee to spare their life. The sender requests an e-mail reply to discuss the money transfer.Police say recipients should not reply to these e-mails. The investigation into these e-mails revealed they are not legitimate, but instead a ploy to obtain financial or personal information. Giving this type of information could lead to identity theft. Police are urging anyone who receives this type of e-mail to report them to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at www.ic3.gov....

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computer engineer Fouad Mourtada accused of posing as a member of the Moroccan royal family on the social networking Web site

A computer engineer accused of posing as a member of the Moroccan royal family on the social networking Web site, Facebook, has been sentenced to three years in prison. A court in Casablanca imposed the sentence on Fouad Mourtada, 26, on Friday, the state news agency said.Mourtada was charged with stealing the identity of Prince Moulay Rachid, the younger brother of the Moroccan king, and of forging computer documents.Lawyers for Mourtada, who said he created the profile as "a joke, a gag," said they would appeal the sentence.Since Mourtada's arrest this month, bloggers in Morocco and across Europe have rallied behind him. At least seven fake profiles for the prince popped up on Facebook.In a Web site that his family started, www.helpfouad.com, Mourtada is quoted as saying the following to...

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copycat killer targeting prostitutes in Edmonton

copycat killer targeting prostitutes in Edmonton. It's one way to explain the discovery Thursday of another slain prostitute in Strathcona County, a top serial killer expert told Sun Media. It came just days after the start of the Thomas Svekla murder trial. Charged with the second-degree murder of local prostitutes Theresa Innes and Rachel Quinney, Svekla told police he found Quinney's body near Fort Saskatchewan in 2004, not far from where cops found Innes's body in Svekla's sister's garage in 2006. Jack Levin, one of the foremost experts on serial killers and author and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, said the case of the most recent victim, Brianna Torvalson, is intriguing. Unlike most of the other 15 women found...

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