Mangalore : Second Additional District and Sessions Judge C M Joshi said that every student must know about the essential laws to be followed in day to day life since; today’s students are tomorrow’s citizens’.

He was speaking after inaugurating legal literacy workshop, organized by Dakshina Kannada District Legal Service Authority in association with Mangalore Bar Association and Balmatta Government Pre-University Women’s College, at the college premises on September 4, Thursday.

He also said that, problems arise in the implementation of laws and in order to correct the mistakes one must find out the fault. He also stressed the importance of learning traffic rules for students.

Speaking on Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, Advocate Mayoora Keerthi said that Supreme Court had defined education as a field with many actors and hence distributed the responsibility of providing free and compulsory education to children below 14-years of age.

The Act also states that parents are also restricted to keep their child at home without sending to school. The law also issues right to child to take transfer in the middle of academics.

Advocate K Vinayak Kamath delivered lecture on cyber crime and said that although one can choose technology to commit crime the same technology helps the police to catch the criminal in the modern world. The use of technology like accessing, downloading, copying, extracting, virus damage, disrupting or causing to disrupt, denial or causing denial, service to the account of others, assistance in contravention, computer contamination is considered as Cyber crime and can send one to jail.

Konaje Police Station Inspector Raghava S Padil said that the students who will face sexual harassment must not keep quiet but inform the matter and share their problems with the committee headed by a woman.

Senior Civil Judge and District Legal Service Authority Member Secretary Ganesh B, Mangalore Bar Association President Ashok Ariga and College Principal P P Joseph were present.