mumbai stunned by the law enforcing agencies apparent lack of knowledge on cyber norms cyber forensics and investigations adjudicating officer under the information technology act and state it secretary rajesh aggarwal has asked director general of police sanjeevdayal to organize special training for all personnel and deploy adequate manpower in the cyber crime cells i must also comment on the investigation by the police they have just recorded the statement of the bank manager and not used the technology tools properlythat the police did not do even simple cyber investigation properly is a sad commentary on the knowledge of cyber laws cyber forensics and cyber investigations aggarwal said in his fourpage speaking orderamit patwardhan had knocked at the doors of adjudicating officer saying his former employer rud india chains obtained specific details of his bank account by hacking into the bank system patwardhans contention was that it was an offence under the information technology act 2000 while his employer submitted that patwardhan took away the companys secrets and was getting gratification from rivals to lure its customers despite the fact that he was still working with rud india chains the branch manager of bank of baroda thane submitted that the information on patwardhans account matched with his bank account data but its not in the standard format also that the bank policy is not to give detailed bank statements to anyone without the customers approval hence the bank has no knowledge as to how rud india chains obtained patwardhans bank statement its a fact that rud india chains has some how obtained patwardhans bank statement and filed it as evidence in a civil suit the company has not explained how they got the bank statement after the banks denial that they did not give the statement the only possibility is that the firm hacked into the computer systems since patwardhan has not come before the forum with clean hands and prima facie he was disloyal to his employer i am not imposing any punishment on the firm though i am holding them guilty of violating patwardhans privacy aggarwal said passing strictures against the bank aggarwal pointed out that it has done absolutely no investigation on its own to find how this has occurred this speaks volumes about the apathy of the bank regarding the privacy of its customers sensitive data since they are not party in the present case i am passing no further orders regarding the liability of the bank he said on applicability of the information technology act aggarwal said that since the statement has not come from physical records kept with the bank but definitely from electronic records with the institution the act definitely comes into play