with usage of internet witnessing a steep rise in the country thanks to the mobile revolution there is a spurt in cyber crime where maharashtra leads the pack of registered cases as per national crime records bureau ncrb ironically the current laws are highly inadequate to curb the menace due to lack of awareness among police and public and absence of qualified cyber forensic experts two city engineers nikhil khandekar and sachin sathe took the risk to foray into this largely unexplored sector in 2012 by opening a small firm preyoyance forensic technologies to detect cybercrime cases as it usually happens with new ventures they had to struggle hard for survival they started with creating awareness about cyber crime and how those cases could be cracked with the help of special software initially people disbelieved them on the fact that they can retrieve lost data of not only the computers but also of social working platforms like whatsapp facebook and twitter after toiling hard for four years their efforts were recognized as all crime cases like murder kidnappings and rapes are referred to them by the cops in a teteatete with toi the duo unravels new technologies to crack crimesq how did it all starta after pursuing our graduation from engineering stream we started doing jobs in private companies we met each other for some work and our thoughts related to forensic sciences matched we pursued a oneyear postgraduate diploma in forensic science from institute of science since the college lacked facilities like good laboratories we took admission in online certification course in cyber forensic investigator leave aside the common man even the police was in dark about this field we visited various police stations and explained them the concept and how the conviction rate could be increased with the help of this technologyq is there any big case you have cracked a two nigerians were caught by ambazari police for narcotics trade and possessing fake currencies with out help though they were remanded to police custody the cops were not getting concrete proof against them as their embassy refused to cooperate with their data related to visa and passport they were on verge of getting bail when we retrieved their information the police were shocked to know that the duo was illegally staying in our country on a fake visa and passport since last five years and were actively involved in narcotics trade they had also duped many people under the garb of online lottery based on our findings the cops managed to retain their custody till date and got minute details about their modus operandiq you also helped in cracking rave party case where a college girl died after falling in swimming poola our investigation actually helped the cops move in the right direction and declare the teenagers death accidental we helped them retrieve data from dvr files of cctv cameras at the farm house where the incident took place the rave party was