India, June 24 -- The Supreme Court has commended Tamil Nadu's legislative and administrative resolve in tackling cybercrime through preventive detention, noting that traditional criminal laws are inadequate in addressing the rising menace of online financial fraud.

"It is a good trend coming from the state to use preventive detention laws against cyber offenders. It is a very welcome approach," a bench of justices Sandeep Mehta and Joymalya Bagchi said on Monday.

The court was hearing a petition of the father of Abhijeet Singh, detained under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act, 1982 (commonly referred to as the Goondas Act), for allegedly duping a woman of Rs.84.5 lakh in a cyber fraud.

The Theni district collector ...