Changes are taking place in all spheres of life. The education is changing, the business is changing, and the markets are changing. Don’t be surprised if you hear that the crime is also changing. Gone are the days when crime was identified with murders, thefts, cheating or road accidents. I am not saying that these don’t come under crime anymore but the crime scenario has become bigger and more technical. Mafia organized crimes were replaced by the likes of Dawood Ibrahim, Shakeel etc. by diversifying into smuggling of silver, gold and electronic goods, apart from extortion and protection business.

Generation of black money through investing in film industry, real estate and big business, through illegal channels is also a crime but often ignored. Many illegal elements perceive Bollywood as an easy method of making money. With liberalization of economy and a lot of money floating around, new types of economic crimes are coming up, like the human trafficking, prostitution, fake recruitment and fake visas, for sending people abroad drug, trafficking, bank scams, stock exchange scams, credit card, internet and lottery frauds. The free economy and temptation to make money has led to a surge in business frauds and corruption. The reputed white-collar are indulging in corruption seems to be the crime of choice of modern generation.

These crimes are more dangerous than thefts, and pick pocketing and can steal person’s total life savings in one go. These crimes have made the traditional crimes so small and pity in front of the modern tech savvy crimes. The motive of all crime is economic position rise. These resolve around money and power with a view of getting richer quickly, without working for it.

Another type of crime, which has emerged recently, is the fraud of internet, which cashes on the gullibility and greed of the victims. Many become victims of it, in their desire to get rich quickly. This takes the form of cheating people through claims of fake lottery wins. After a person has received the email, then he is told to send some money as processing fee. Fraudsters make their fortunes out of the processing fee collected and then disappear. People have been caught, but still there is no end to this fraud. This kind of a crime does not find any mention in the crime manuals or even of the Indian Penal Code.

We need not only to update our laws, but also be willing to change and scrap them with the change in circumstances and conditions. If our laws are not modified to meet this evil, it can alone be mitigated by the change in the executive branch of the police in that province that are inhabited or subject of the in-roads or predatory tribes. The Police, the government and the people have to join hands together to fight these crimes which often go unpunished.