All intoductory informatino about the Cyber laws and specially laws in India known as IT ACT 2000

1. CYBER LAWS

2. INDEX
• Introduction
• Importance
• IT-Act 2000
• Key points
• Sections

3. Introduction
o Cyber Law took birth in order to take
control over the crimes committed through
the internet or the cyberspace or through
the uses of computer resources.
o This law was introduced by Pramod
Mahajan.

4. Importance
o Cyber Law plays a very important role in
every aspects or connection to
communicational or transactional
activities carried out by us.
o Whether we are aware or not but each
action and each reaction in Cyber space
has some legal and Cyber legal views.
o It concerns with the Internet, the World
Wide Web and Cyberspace.

5. IT-Act 2000
o In India the law had been signed on 9th
May 2000, was considered as law from 9th
June 2000 and was begin to use from 17th
October 2000.
o This law was introduced by Pramod
Mahajan.

6. Key points of IT-act 2000
o E-mail is considered valid and legal way of communication.
o Digital signatures are given legal validity.
o Act has given birth to new business to companies to issue digital certificates by becoming the
Certifying Authorities.
o Act allows the government to issue notices on internet through e-governance.
o The communication between the companies or between the company and the government
can be done through internet.
o It introduced the construct of digital signatures that verifies the identity of an individual on
internet.
o In case of any harm or loss done to the company by criminals, the Act provides a remedy in
the form of money to the company

7. Digital Signature

8. Section- 65
o Definition → Temping with the computers source documents.
o Description → Whoever intentionally or knowingly destroy, conceal or change any
computer’s source code that is used for a computer, computer program, and computer
system or computer network.
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of Rs.2 lakhs or with both.

9. Section- 66
o Definition → Hacking with computer system, data alteration etc.
o Description → Whoever with the purpose or intention to cause any loss, damage or to
destroy, delete or to alter any information that resides in a public or any person’s
computer. Diminish its utility, values or affects it injuriously by any means, commits
hacking
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of Rs.2 lakhs or with both.

10. Section- 66A
o Definition → Sending offensive messages through any communication services.
o Description → Any information that is not true or is not valid and is sent with the end goal
of annoying, inconvenience, danger, insult, obstruction, injury, criminal intention, enmity,
hatred or ill will.
o Any electronic mail or email sent with the end goal of causing anger, difficulty or mislead
or to deceive the address about the origin of the messages.
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment along with a fine.

11. Section- 66B
o Definition → Receiving stolen computer’s resources or communication devices
dishonestly
o Description → Receiving or retaining any stolen computer, computer’s resources or any
communication devices knowingly or having the reason to believe the same.
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of rupee 1 lakh.

12. Section- 66C
o Definition → Identity Theft
o Description → Using of one’s digital or electronic signature or one’s password or any
other unique identification of any person is a crime
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of rupee 1 lakh.

13. Section- 66D
o Definition → Cheating by personation by the use of computer’s resources.
o Description → Using someone’s mobile phones or computer or another digital device
and cheating on other is included in this section.
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of rupee 1 lakh.

14. Section- 66E
o Definition → Privacy or violation.
o Description → Whoever knowingly or with an intention of publishing, transmitting or
capturing images of private areas or private parts of any individual without his/her
consent, that violets the privacy of the individual.
o Punishment → Up to 3 years imprisonment or with a fine of rupee 2 lakh.

15. Section- 66F
o Definition → Cyber Terrorism.
o Description →
o Whoever intentionally threatened the integrity, unity, sovereignty or security or strike terror among
the people or among any group of people
o By intention or by knowingly tries to go through or tries to gain access to computer’s resources
without the authorization or exceeding authorized access and make the country’s or government
data unsecure.
o Punishment → life time imprisonment.

16. Section- 67
o Definition → Transmitting or publishing obscene materials in electronic form.
o Description → Whoever transmits or publishes or cause to publish any obscene materials
in electronics form.
o Any material that is vulgar or appeal to be lubricious or if its effect is for instance to tends
to corrupt any individual who are likely to have regard to all relevant circumstances to
read or to see or to hear the matter that contained in it.
o Punishment → 5 years imprisonment along with 1 lakh rupee fine for single offence but for
committing relevant circumstances it can be doubled i.e. 10 years and 2 lakh of fine.

17. Section- 67A
o Definition → Transmitting or publishing of materials that contains sexually explicit contents,
acts etc. in electronics form.
o Description → Whoever transmits or publishes materials that contains sexually explicit
contents or acts.
o Punishment → 5 years imprisonment along with 10 lakh rupee fine for First convict and in
second convict 7 years and 20 lakh of fine.

18. Section- 67B
o Definition → Transmitting or publishing of materials that depicts children in sexually explicit
act etc. in electronics form
o Description → Whoever transmits or publishes materials that makes children or includes
children in sexually explicit contents or acts.
o Punishment → 5 years imprisonment along with 10 lakh rupee fine for First convict and in
second convict 7 years and 10 lakh of fine.

19. Section- 67C
o Definition → Retention and preservation of information by intermediaries
o Description → Whoever controls or preserves any of the information that may be helpful
to any governmental activities is not allowed.
o Punishment → 3 years imprisonment along with liable fine.

20. Explanation of Section- 67
o It’s based on pornographic content.
o Myth: Watching porn is crime.
o Truth Watching Porn isn’t a crime, transmitting pornographic content is a crime.
o This is the act which says that watching porn alone without anyone’s transmission is not a
crime but if you give to someone by an means than it is considered as crime.
o Watching porn in public places, over a public wi-fi, over someone’s wi-fi or organizational
wi-fi is all considered under cyber crime.

21. Section- 69
o Definition → Power to issue direction for monitor, decryption or interception of any
information through computer’s resources
o Description → Where the Central Government or a State Government or any of its
officers specially authorized by the Central Government or the State Government, as the
case may be, in this behalf may, if satisfied that it is necessary or expedient to do in the
interest of the sovereignty or integrity of India.
o For reasons to be recorded in writing, by order, direct any agency of the appropriate
Government to intercept, monitor or decrypt or cause to be intercepted or monitored or
decrypted any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer
resource.
o Punishment → 7 years imprisonment along with liable fine.

22. Other important sections
Offences Sec. under IT Act, 2000
Damage to Computer, Computer System etc. Section 43
Power to issue direction for blocking from public access of any
information through any computer’s resources.
Section 69A
Power to authorize to collect traffic information or data and to
monitor through any computer’s resources for cyber security
Section 69B
Un-authorized access to protected system. Section 70
Penalty for misrepresentation. Section 71
Breach of confidentiality and privacy Section 72
Publishing False digital signature certificates. Section 73
Publication for fraudulent purpose. Section 74
Act to apply for contravention or offence that is committed
outside India.
Section 75

23. Other important sections
Offences Sec. under IT Act, 2000
Compensation, confiscation or penalties for not to interfere with
other punishment.
Section 77
Compounding of Offences. Section 77A
Offences by Companies. Section 85
Sending threatening messages by e-mail. Section 503 IPC
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail. Section 499 IPC
Bogus websites, Cyber Frauds Section 420 IPC
E-mail Spoofing. Section 463 IPC
Web Jacking. Section 383 IPC
E-mail Abuse Section 500 IPC
Criminal intimidation by anonymous communications. Section 507 IPC

24. NPDS ACT
◦ Online sale of Drugs.
◦ Now NPDS act is in compliance
with IT Act 2000
◦ It ensures that a person doesn’t
sale any illegal drugs online.

25. Arm ACT
◦ Online sale of Weapons.
◦ It ensures that no one sales weapons online
illegally without any permission.

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