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procedural part
INTRODUCTION
ldquoWhen a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in he has no choice but to become
an outlawrdquo
Nelson Mandela
What does crime mean
Crime in modern times this term doesnrsquot have any universally accepted definition but one can
define crime also called an offence as an act harmful not only to some individual but also to
the community or the state also known as public wrong Such acts are forbidden and
punishable by law What is a criminal offence is defined by criminal law of each country While
many countries have a crime catalogue known as the criminal code however in some common
law countries no such comprehensive statute exists
The state has the power to severely restrict onersquos liberty for committing a crime Modern
societies therefore adopt and adhere a criminal procedure during the investigation and trial of
the offence and only if found guilty the offender may be sentenced to various punishmentssuch as life imprisonment or in some jurisdictions like in India even death
To be classified as a crime the act of doing something bad also called as actus reus must be
usually accompanied by the intention to do something bad ie mens rea with certain
exceptions like strict liability
What is cyber crime
Cyber crime is any criminal activity in which a computer or network is the source target or tool
or place of crime According to The Cambridge English Dictionary cyber crimes are the crimes
committed with the use of computers or relating to computers especially through the internet
Crimes which involve use of information or usage of electronic means in furtherance of crime are
covered under the ambit of cyber crime Cyber space crimes may be committed against
persons property government and society at large
The common types of cyber crimes are-
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1 Hacking ndash An unauthorized user who attempts to or gains access to an information
system is known as hacker Hacking is a cyber crime even if there is no visible damage to
the system because it is an invasion in to the privacy of data
There are 3 dierent classes of Hackers
a) White Hat Hackers ndash They are those hackers who believe that information sharing is good
and that it is their duty to share their expertise by facilitating access to information However
there are some white hat hackers who are just ldquojoy ridingrdquo on computer systems
b) Black Hat Hackers ndash Black hat hackers cause damage after intrusion They may steal or
modify data or insert viruses or worms which damage the system They are also known as
crackers
c) Grey Hat Hackers ndash These type of hackers are typically ethical but occasionally they can
violate the hacker ethics They will hack into networks stand-alone computers and software
Network hackers try to gain unauthorized access to private computer networks just for
challenge curiosity and distribution of information
2 Cyber Stalking ndash Cyber stalking involves use of internet to harass someone The behavior
includes false accusations threats etc Normally majority of cyber stalkers are men and themajority of victims are women
3 Spamming ndash Spamming is sending of unsolicited bulk and commercial messages over the
internet Although irritating to most email users it is not illegal unless it causes damage such as
overloading network and disrupting service to subscribers or creates negative impact on
consumer attitudes towards Internet Service Provider
4 Cyber Pornography ndash With the increasing approach of internet to the people there is also
a increase in the victimization of Women and children for sexual exploitation through internet
Pedophiles (a person 16 years of age or older who is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted
to children who have not begun puberty) use the internet to send photos of illegal child
pornography to targeted children so as to attract children to such funs and later they are
sexually exploited for gains
5 Cyber Phishing ndash It is a criminally fraudulent process in which cyber criminal acquiressensitive information such as username passwords and credit card details by disguising as a
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trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
6 Software Piracy ndash It is an illegal reproduction and distribution of software for business or
personal use This is considered to be a type of infringement of copy right and a violation of a
license agreement Since the unauthorized user is not a party to the license agreement it is
difficult to find out remedies There are numerous cases of software piracy Infact according to
one report New Delhirsquos Nehru market is the Asiarsquos largest market where one can easily find
pirated software
7 Corporate Espionage ndash It means theft of trade secrets through illegal means such as wire
taps or illegal intrusions
8 Money Laundering ndash Money laundering basically means the moving of illegally acquired
cash through financial and other systems so that it appears to be legally acquired This is
possible prior to computer and internet technology and now times electronic transfers have
made it easier and more successful
9 Embezzlement - Internet facilities are misused to commit this crime It is the unlawful
misappropriation of money property or any other thing of value that has been entrusted to the
offenderrsquos care custody or control
10 Password Sniers ndash These are programs that monitor and record the name and password
of network users as they log in jeopardizing security at a site Whoever installs the sniffer can
impersonate an authorized user and log in to access on restricted documents
11 Spoofing ndash Spoofing is the act of disguising one computer to electronically ldquolookrdquo like
another compute in order to gain access to a system that would be normally is restricted
12 Credit Card Fraud ndash In USA half a billion dollars have been lost annually by consumers
who have credit cards and calling card numbers These are stolen from on-line databases In
present world this cyber crime is emerged as a major threat as numerous cases had been filed
in almost every major developed and developing country
13 Web Jacking ndash The term refers to forceful taking of control of a web site by cracking the
password
14 Cyber terrorism ndash The use of computer resources to intimidate or coerce government the
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civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives is called
cyber terrorism Individuals and groups quite often try to exploit anonymous character of the
internet to threaten governments and terrorize the citizens of the country [1]
EVOLUTION amp PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
ldquoCyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical
access to their victims to do unimaginable harmrdquo -Anna Maria Chavez
Crime is both a social as well as a economic phenomenon Its history is as old as human
society Many books right from the pre-historic days and mythological stories have spoken
about crimes committed by individuals be it against another individual like ordinary theft and
burglary or against the nation like spying treason etc Kautilyarsquos Arthashastra which is written
around 350 BC considered to be an authentic administrative treatise in India discusses the
various crimes security initiatives to be taken by the rulers possible crimes in a state etc and
also advocates punishment for the list of some stipulated offences Different kinds of
punishments have been prescribed for listed offences and the concept of restoration of loss to
the victims has also been discussed in it
Crime in any form adversely affects all the members of the society In developing economies
cyber crime has increased at rapid strides due to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and thedigitization of economic activities Thanks to the huge penetration of technology in almost all
walks of society right from corporate governance and state administration up to the lowest level
of petty shop keepers computerizing their billing system we find computers and other
electronic devices pervading the human life The penetration is so deep that man cannot spend
a day without computers or a mobile Snatching some onersquos mobile will tantamount to dumping
one in solitary confinement
Internet is the fastest technique on earth that one can find these days and for everything it is the
best solution that people consider looking into It has all the benefits and advantages like
communication advertisement online movie and songs downloads emailing instant
messaging and searching out the concerns and issues there are plenty of things that internet
has got wrong as well There are different kinds of internet scams and frauds that are happening
and one needs to be very careful This is something that has been bothering individuals and
organizations ever since internet was introduced and many a time simple things could make
you a victim even when you are unaware of it
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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procedural part
INTRODUCTION
ldquoWhen a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in he has no choice but to become
an outlawrdquo
Nelson Mandela
What does crime mean
Crime in modern times this term doesnrsquot have any universally accepted definition but one can
define crime also called an offence as an act harmful not only to some individual but also to
the community or the state also known as public wrong Such acts are forbidden and
punishable by law What is a criminal offence is defined by criminal law of each country While
many countries have a crime catalogue known as the criminal code however in some common
law countries no such comprehensive statute exists
The state has the power to severely restrict onersquos liberty for committing a crime Modern
societies therefore adopt and adhere a criminal procedure during the investigation and trial of
the offence and only if found guilty the offender may be sentenced to various punishmentssuch as life imprisonment or in some jurisdictions like in India even death
To be classified as a crime the act of doing something bad also called as actus reus must be
usually accompanied by the intention to do something bad ie mens rea with certain
exceptions like strict liability
What is cyber crime
Cyber crime is any criminal activity in which a computer or network is the source target or tool
or place of crime According to The Cambridge English Dictionary cyber crimes are the crimes
committed with the use of computers or relating to computers especially through the internet
Crimes which involve use of information or usage of electronic means in furtherance of crime are
covered under the ambit of cyber crime Cyber space crimes may be committed against
persons property government and society at large
The common types of cyber crimes are-
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1 Hacking ndash An unauthorized user who attempts to or gains access to an information
system is known as hacker Hacking is a cyber crime even if there is no visible damage to
the system because it is an invasion in to the privacy of data
There are 3 dierent classes of Hackers
a) White Hat Hackers ndash They are those hackers who believe that information sharing is good
and that it is their duty to share their expertise by facilitating access to information However
there are some white hat hackers who are just ldquojoy ridingrdquo on computer systems
b) Black Hat Hackers ndash Black hat hackers cause damage after intrusion They may steal or
modify data or insert viruses or worms which damage the system They are also known as
crackers
c) Grey Hat Hackers ndash These type of hackers are typically ethical but occasionally they can
violate the hacker ethics They will hack into networks stand-alone computers and software
Network hackers try to gain unauthorized access to private computer networks just for
challenge curiosity and distribution of information
2 Cyber Stalking ndash Cyber stalking involves use of internet to harass someone The behavior
includes false accusations threats etc Normally majority of cyber stalkers are men and themajority of victims are women
3 Spamming ndash Spamming is sending of unsolicited bulk and commercial messages over the
internet Although irritating to most email users it is not illegal unless it causes damage such as
overloading network and disrupting service to subscribers or creates negative impact on
consumer attitudes towards Internet Service Provider
4 Cyber Pornography ndash With the increasing approach of internet to the people there is also
a increase in the victimization of Women and children for sexual exploitation through internet
Pedophiles (a person 16 years of age or older who is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted
to children who have not begun puberty) use the internet to send photos of illegal child
pornography to targeted children so as to attract children to such funs and later they are
sexually exploited for gains
5 Cyber Phishing ndash It is a criminally fraudulent process in which cyber criminal acquiressensitive information such as username passwords and credit card details by disguising as a
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trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
6 Software Piracy ndash It is an illegal reproduction and distribution of software for business or
personal use This is considered to be a type of infringement of copy right and a violation of a
license agreement Since the unauthorized user is not a party to the license agreement it is
difficult to find out remedies There are numerous cases of software piracy Infact according to
one report New Delhirsquos Nehru market is the Asiarsquos largest market where one can easily find
pirated software
7 Corporate Espionage ndash It means theft of trade secrets through illegal means such as wire
taps or illegal intrusions
8 Money Laundering ndash Money laundering basically means the moving of illegally acquired
cash through financial and other systems so that it appears to be legally acquired This is
possible prior to computer and internet technology and now times electronic transfers have
made it easier and more successful
9 Embezzlement - Internet facilities are misused to commit this crime It is the unlawful
misappropriation of money property or any other thing of value that has been entrusted to the
offenderrsquos care custody or control
10 Password Sniers ndash These are programs that monitor and record the name and password
of network users as they log in jeopardizing security at a site Whoever installs the sniffer can
impersonate an authorized user and log in to access on restricted documents
11 Spoofing ndash Spoofing is the act of disguising one computer to electronically ldquolookrdquo like
another compute in order to gain access to a system that would be normally is restricted
12 Credit Card Fraud ndash In USA half a billion dollars have been lost annually by consumers
who have credit cards and calling card numbers These are stolen from on-line databases In
present world this cyber crime is emerged as a major threat as numerous cases had been filed
in almost every major developed and developing country
13 Web Jacking ndash The term refers to forceful taking of control of a web site by cracking the
password
14 Cyber terrorism ndash The use of computer resources to intimidate or coerce government the
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civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives is called
cyber terrorism Individuals and groups quite often try to exploit anonymous character of the
internet to threaten governments and terrorize the citizens of the country [1]
EVOLUTION amp PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
ldquoCyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical
access to their victims to do unimaginable harmrdquo -Anna Maria Chavez
Crime is both a social as well as a economic phenomenon Its history is as old as human
society Many books right from the pre-historic days and mythological stories have spoken
about crimes committed by individuals be it against another individual like ordinary theft and
burglary or against the nation like spying treason etc Kautilyarsquos Arthashastra which is written
around 350 BC considered to be an authentic administrative treatise in India discusses the
various crimes security initiatives to be taken by the rulers possible crimes in a state etc and
also advocates punishment for the list of some stipulated offences Different kinds of
punishments have been prescribed for listed offences and the concept of restoration of loss to
the victims has also been discussed in it
Crime in any form adversely affects all the members of the society In developing economies
cyber crime has increased at rapid strides due to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and thedigitization of economic activities Thanks to the huge penetration of technology in almost all
walks of society right from corporate governance and state administration up to the lowest level
of petty shop keepers computerizing their billing system we find computers and other
electronic devices pervading the human life The penetration is so deep that man cannot spend
a day without computers or a mobile Snatching some onersquos mobile will tantamount to dumping
one in solitary confinement
Internet is the fastest technique on earth that one can find these days and for everything it is the
best solution that people consider looking into It has all the benefits and advantages like
communication advertisement online movie and songs downloads emailing instant
messaging and searching out the concerns and issues there are plenty of things that internet
has got wrong as well There are different kinds of internet scams and frauds that are happening
and one needs to be very careful This is something that has been bothering individuals and
organizations ever since internet was introduced and many a time simple things could make
you a victim even when you are unaware of it
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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1 Hacking ndash An unauthorized user who attempts to or gains access to an information
system is known as hacker Hacking is a cyber crime even if there is no visible damage to
the system because it is an invasion in to the privacy of data
There are 3 dierent classes of Hackers
a) White Hat Hackers ndash They are those hackers who believe that information sharing is good
and that it is their duty to share their expertise by facilitating access to information However
there are some white hat hackers who are just ldquojoy ridingrdquo on computer systems
b) Black Hat Hackers ndash Black hat hackers cause damage after intrusion They may steal or
modify data or insert viruses or worms which damage the system They are also known as
crackers
c) Grey Hat Hackers ndash These type of hackers are typically ethical but occasionally they can
violate the hacker ethics They will hack into networks stand-alone computers and software
Network hackers try to gain unauthorized access to private computer networks just for
challenge curiosity and distribution of information
2 Cyber Stalking ndash Cyber stalking involves use of internet to harass someone The behavior
includes false accusations threats etc Normally majority of cyber stalkers are men and themajority of victims are women
3 Spamming ndash Spamming is sending of unsolicited bulk and commercial messages over the
internet Although irritating to most email users it is not illegal unless it causes damage such as
overloading network and disrupting service to subscribers or creates negative impact on
consumer attitudes towards Internet Service Provider
4 Cyber Pornography ndash With the increasing approach of internet to the people there is also
a increase in the victimization of Women and children for sexual exploitation through internet
Pedophiles (a person 16 years of age or older who is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted
to children who have not begun puberty) use the internet to send photos of illegal child
pornography to targeted children so as to attract children to such funs and later they are
sexually exploited for gains
5 Cyber Phishing ndash It is a criminally fraudulent process in which cyber criminal acquiressensitive information such as username passwords and credit card details by disguising as a
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trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
6 Software Piracy ndash It is an illegal reproduction and distribution of software for business or
personal use This is considered to be a type of infringement of copy right and a violation of a
license agreement Since the unauthorized user is not a party to the license agreement it is
difficult to find out remedies There are numerous cases of software piracy Infact according to
one report New Delhirsquos Nehru market is the Asiarsquos largest market where one can easily find
pirated software
7 Corporate Espionage ndash It means theft of trade secrets through illegal means such as wire
taps or illegal intrusions
8 Money Laundering ndash Money laundering basically means the moving of illegally acquired
cash through financial and other systems so that it appears to be legally acquired This is
possible prior to computer and internet technology and now times electronic transfers have
made it easier and more successful
9 Embezzlement - Internet facilities are misused to commit this crime It is the unlawful
misappropriation of money property or any other thing of value that has been entrusted to the
offenderrsquos care custody or control
10 Password Sniers ndash These are programs that monitor and record the name and password
of network users as they log in jeopardizing security at a site Whoever installs the sniffer can
impersonate an authorized user and log in to access on restricted documents
11 Spoofing ndash Spoofing is the act of disguising one computer to electronically ldquolookrdquo like
another compute in order to gain access to a system that would be normally is restricted
12 Credit Card Fraud ndash In USA half a billion dollars have been lost annually by consumers
who have credit cards and calling card numbers These are stolen from on-line databases In
present world this cyber crime is emerged as a major threat as numerous cases had been filed
in almost every major developed and developing country
13 Web Jacking ndash The term refers to forceful taking of control of a web site by cracking the
password
14 Cyber terrorism ndash The use of computer resources to intimidate or coerce government the
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civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives is called
cyber terrorism Individuals and groups quite often try to exploit anonymous character of the
internet to threaten governments and terrorize the citizens of the country [1]
EVOLUTION amp PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
ldquoCyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical
access to their victims to do unimaginable harmrdquo -Anna Maria Chavez
Crime is both a social as well as a economic phenomenon Its history is as old as human
society Many books right from the pre-historic days and mythological stories have spoken
about crimes committed by individuals be it against another individual like ordinary theft and
burglary or against the nation like spying treason etc Kautilyarsquos Arthashastra which is written
around 350 BC considered to be an authentic administrative treatise in India discusses the
various crimes security initiatives to be taken by the rulers possible crimes in a state etc and
also advocates punishment for the list of some stipulated offences Different kinds of
punishments have been prescribed for listed offences and the concept of restoration of loss to
the victims has also been discussed in it
Crime in any form adversely affects all the members of the society In developing economies
cyber crime has increased at rapid strides due to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and thedigitization of economic activities Thanks to the huge penetration of technology in almost all
walks of society right from corporate governance and state administration up to the lowest level
of petty shop keepers computerizing their billing system we find computers and other
electronic devices pervading the human life The penetration is so deep that man cannot spend
a day without computers or a mobile Snatching some onersquos mobile will tantamount to dumping
one in solitary confinement
Internet is the fastest technique on earth that one can find these days and for everything it is the
best solution that people consider looking into It has all the benefits and advantages like
communication advertisement online movie and songs downloads emailing instant
messaging and searching out the concerns and issues there are plenty of things that internet
has got wrong as well There are different kinds of internet scams and frauds that are happening
and one needs to be very careful This is something that has been bothering individuals and
organizations ever since internet was introduced and many a time simple things could make
you a victim even when you are unaware of it
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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trustworthy entity in an electronic communication
6 Software Piracy ndash It is an illegal reproduction and distribution of software for business or
personal use This is considered to be a type of infringement of copy right and a violation of a
license agreement Since the unauthorized user is not a party to the license agreement it is
difficult to find out remedies There are numerous cases of software piracy Infact according to
one report New Delhirsquos Nehru market is the Asiarsquos largest market where one can easily find
pirated software
7 Corporate Espionage ndash It means theft of trade secrets through illegal means such as wire
taps or illegal intrusions
8 Money Laundering ndash Money laundering basically means the moving of illegally acquired
cash through financial and other systems so that it appears to be legally acquired This is
possible prior to computer and internet technology and now times electronic transfers have
made it easier and more successful
9 Embezzlement - Internet facilities are misused to commit this crime It is the unlawful
misappropriation of money property or any other thing of value that has been entrusted to the
offenderrsquos care custody or control
10 Password Sniers ndash These are programs that monitor and record the name and password
of network users as they log in jeopardizing security at a site Whoever installs the sniffer can
impersonate an authorized user and log in to access on restricted documents
11 Spoofing ndash Spoofing is the act of disguising one computer to electronically ldquolookrdquo like
another compute in order to gain access to a system that would be normally is restricted
12 Credit Card Fraud ndash In USA half a billion dollars have been lost annually by consumers
who have credit cards and calling card numbers These are stolen from on-line databases In
present world this cyber crime is emerged as a major threat as numerous cases had been filed
in almost every major developed and developing country
13 Web Jacking ndash The term refers to forceful taking of control of a web site by cracking the
password
14 Cyber terrorism ndash The use of computer resources to intimidate or coerce government the
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civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives is called
cyber terrorism Individuals and groups quite often try to exploit anonymous character of the
internet to threaten governments and terrorize the citizens of the country [1]
EVOLUTION amp PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
ldquoCyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical
access to their victims to do unimaginable harmrdquo -Anna Maria Chavez
Crime is both a social as well as a economic phenomenon Its history is as old as human
society Many books right from the pre-historic days and mythological stories have spoken
about crimes committed by individuals be it against another individual like ordinary theft and
burglary or against the nation like spying treason etc Kautilyarsquos Arthashastra which is written
around 350 BC considered to be an authentic administrative treatise in India discusses the
various crimes security initiatives to be taken by the rulers possible crimes in a state etc and
also advocates punishment for the list of some stipulated offences Different kinds of
punishments have been prescribed for listed offences and the concept of restoration of loss to
the victims has also been discussed in it
Crime in any form adversely affects all the members of the society In developing economies
cyber crime has increased at rapid strides due to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and thedigitization of economic activities Thanks to the huge penetration of technology in almost all
walks of society right from corporate governance and state administration up to the lowest level
of petty shop keepers computerizing their billing system we find computers and other
electronic devices pervading the human life The penetration is so deep that man cannot spend
a day without computers or a mobile Snatching some onersquos mobile will tantamount to dumping
one in solitary confinement
Internet is the fastest technique on earth that one can find these days and for everything it is the
best solution that people consider looking into It has all the benefits and advantages like
communication advertisement online movie and songs downloads emailing instant
messaging and searching out the concerns and issues there are plenty of things that internet
has got wrong as well There are different kinds of internet scams and frauds that are happening
and one needs to be very careful This is something that has been bothering individuals and
organizations ever since internet was introduced and many a time simple things could make
you a victim even when you are unaware of it
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives is called
cyber terrorism Individuals and groups quite often try to exploit anonymous character of the
internet to threaten governments and terrorize the citizens of the country [1]
EVOLUTION amp PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
ldquoCyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical
access to their victims to do unimaginable harmrdquo -Anna Maria Chavez
Crime is both a social as well as a economic phenomenon Its history is as old as human
society Many books right from the pre-historic days and mythological stories have spoken
about crimes committed by individuals be it against another individual like ordinary theft and
burglary or against the nation like spying treason etc Kautilyarsquos Arthashastra which is written
around 350 BC considered to be an authentic administrative treatise in India discusses the
various crimes security initiatives to be taken by the rulers possible crimes in a state etc and
also advocates punishment for the list of some stipulated offences Different kinds of
punishments have been prescribed for listed offences and the concept of restoration of loss to
the victims has also been discussed in it
Crime in any form adversely affects all the members of the society In developing economies
cyber crime has increased at rapid strides due to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and thedigitization of economic activities Thanks to the huge penetration of technology in almost all
walks of society right from corporate governance and state administration up to the lowest level
of petty shop keepers computerizing their billing system we find computers and other
electronic devices pervading the human life The penetration is so deep that man cannot spend
a day without computers or a mobile Snatching some onersquos mobile will tantamount to dumping
one in solitary confinement
Internet is the fastest technique on earth that one can find these days and for everything it is the
best solution that people consider looking into It has all the benefits and advantages like
communication advertisement online movie and songs downloads emailing instant
messaging and searching out the concerns and issues there are plenty of things that internet
has got wrong as well There are different kinds of internet scams and frauds that are happening
and one needs to be very careful This is something that has been bothering individuals and
organizations ever since internet was introduced and many a time simple things could make
you a victim even when you are unaware of it
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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It is rightly said that technological development in every area is likely to cause drastic effects in
every walk of life The scientific and technological advancement especially in the field of
communication and information have created havoc thus opening new vistas for the human
beings including the criminals Todayrsquos crime reports reveal that many cyber crimes are
committed by assistance of internet and cell phones On the other hand legislatures have been
compelled to frame exclusive enactments to deal with crimes committed with the help of
concerned device If one is to believe newspaper reports many scandals such as CD rackets
were busted by the police It is other side of revolution in the field of information and technology
Under the Information Technology Act 2000 there is a apparatus defined as ldquocomputerrdquo which
means ldquoAny electronic magnetic optical or other high speed data processing device or system
which performs logical arithmetical and memory functions by manipulations of electronic
magnetic or optical impulses and all input output processing storage computer software or
communication facilities which are connected and related to the computer in a computer
system or computer networkrdquo [2]
Development of Cyber Crime-
Cyber Crime is neither defined in the IT Act 2000 nor in the IT Amendment Act 2008 nor in any
other legislation in India To define cyber crime we can say it is just a combination of crime and
computer To put it in simple terms lsquoany offence or crime in which a computer is used is a cyber
crimersquo Interestingly even a petty offence like stealing or pick-pocket can be brought within thebroader purview of cyber crime if the basic data or aid to such an offence is a computer or
information stored in a computer used (or misused) by the fraudster It could be hackers
vandalizing onersquos site viewing confidential information or stealing trade secrets or intellectual
property with the use of internet It can also include lsquodenial of servicesrsquo and viruses attacks
preventing regular traffic from reaching your site
Cyber crimes also includes criminal activities done with the use of computers which further
perpetuates crimes ie financial crimes sale of illegal articles pornography online gambling
intellectual property crime e-mail spoofing forgery cyber defamation cyber stalking
unauthorized access to Computer system theft of information contained in the electronic form
e-mail bombing physically damaging the computer system etc In a cyber crime computer or
the data itself is the target or the object of offence or a tool in committing some other offence
providing the necessary inputs for that offence All such acts of crime will come under the
broader definition of cyber crime
In the past cybercrime has been committed by individuals or small groups of individuals
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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However we are now seeing an emerging trend with traditional organized crime syndicates and
criminally minded technology professionals working together and pooling their resources and
expertise
This approach has been very effective for the criminals involved In 2007 and 2008 the cost of
cybercrime worldwide was estimated at approximately USD 8 billion As for corporate cyber
espionage cyber criminals have stolen intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth
up to USD 1 trillion
Categories of Cyber Crimes
Cyber crimes can be classified into following different categories
i) Crimes Against Persons
Harassment via E-Mails Harassment through sending letters attachments of files amp
folders ie via e-mails At present harassment is common as usage of social sites ie
Orkut hangout zapak Facebook Twitter etc increasing day by day
Cracking It is amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date In this a cyber criminal
broke into your computer systems without your knowledge and consent and Tamperewith your precious confidential data and information
Cyber-Stalking It means expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through
the use to computer technology such as internet e-mail phones text messages
webcam websites or videos
Hacking It means unauthorized controlaccess over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer program Hackers usually hacks
telecommunication and mobile network
Dissemination of Obscene Material It includes Indecent exposure Pornography (basically
child pornography) hosting of web site containing these prohibited materials These
obscene matters may cause harm to the mind of the adolescent and tend to deprave or
corrupt their mind This can create a huge blunder in the society
SMS Spoofing Spoofing is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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As a result of rapid growth in the international trade where businesses and consumers are
increasingly using computers to create transmit and to store information in the electronic form
instead of traditional paper documents there are some of the offences which affect personrsquos
property
Intellectual Property Crimes Any unlawful act by which the owner is deprived completely
or partially of his rights is an offence The common form of IPR violation may be said to be
software piracy infringement of copyright trademark patents designs and service mark
violation theft of computer source code etc
Cybersquatting It means where two persons claim for the same Domain Name either by
claiming that they had registered the name first on by right of using it before the other or
using something similar to that previously For example two similar names ie
wwwyahoocomand wwwyaahoocom
Cyber Vandalism Vandalism means deliberately destroying or damaging property of
another Hence cyber vandalism means destroying or damaging the data when a network
service is stopped or disrupted It may include within its purview any kind of physical harm
done to the computer of any person These acts may take the form of the theft of a
computer some part of a computer or a peripheral attached to the computer
Hacking Computer System Due to the hacking activity there will be loss of data as well
as computer Also research especially indicates that those attacks were not mainly
intended for financial gain too and to diminish the reputation of particular person or
company
Transmitting Virus Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file
and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network They
usually affect the data on a computer either by altering or deleting it Worm attacks plays
major role in affecting the computerize system of the individuals
Cyber Trespass It means to access someonersquos computer without the right authorization
of the owner and does not disturb alter misuse or damage data or system by using
wireless internet connection
Internet Time Thefts Basically Internet time theft comes under hacking It is the use by anunauthorized person of the Internet hours paid for by another person The person who
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Cyber Trafficking It may be trafficking in drugs human beings arms weapons etc which
affects large number of persons Trafficking in the cyberspace is also a gravest crime
Online Gambling Online fraud and cheating is one of the most lucrative businesses that
are growing today in the cyber space There are many cases that have come to light are
those pertaining to credit card crimes contractual crimes offering jobs etc [3]
Financial Crimes This type of offence is common as there is rapid growth in the users of
networking sites and phone networking where culprit will try to attack by sending bogus
mails or messages through internet Ex Using credit cards by obtaining password illegally
[4]
Forgery It means to deceive large number of persons by sending threatening mails as
online business transactions are becoming the habitual need of todayrsquos life style [5]
NEED FOR CYBER LAWS
Information technology has spread throughout the world As the user of cyberspace grows
increasingly diverse and the range of online interaction expands there is expansion in the cyber
crimes ie breach of online contracts perpetration of online torts and crimes etc Due to the
consequences there was need to adopt a strict law by the cyber space authority to regulatecriminal activities relating to cyber and to provide better administration of justice to the victim of
cyber crime In the modern cyber technology world it is very much necessary to regulate cyber
crimes and most importantly cyber law should be made stricter in the case of cyber terrorism
and hackers
Cyber law it is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative
transactional and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies It is
less a distinct field of law than property or contract law as it is a domain covering many areas of
law and regulation IT Law is a set of recent legal enactments currently in existence in several
countries which governs the process and dissemination of information digitally These legal
enactments cover a broad gamut of different aspects relating to computer software protection
of computer software access and control of digital information privacy security internet access
and usage and electronic commerce These laws have been described as ldquopaper lawsrdquo for
ldquopaperless environmentrdquo
IT legislation in India Mid 90rsquos saw an impetus in globalization and computerization with
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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more and more nations computerizing their governance and e-commerce seeing an enormous
growth Previously most of international trade and transactions were done through documents
being transmitted through post and by telex only Evidences and records until then were
predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only With
much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email
gaining momentum an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records ie
The data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto The United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted the Model Law on e-
commerce in 1996 The General Assembly of United Nations passed a resolution in January
1997 inter alia recommending all States in the UN to give favorable considerations to the said
Model Law which provides for recognition to electronic records and according it the same
treatment like a paper communication and record
Objectives of IT legislation in India It is against this background the Government of India
enacted its Information Technology Act 2000 with the objectives as follows stated in the
preface to the Act itself ldquoto provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of
electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication commonly referred
to as ldquoelectronic commercerdquo which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of
communication and storage of information to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the
Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code the Indian Evidence Act
1872 the Bankersrsquo Books Evidence Act 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 and formatters connected therewith or incidental theretordquo
The Information Technology Act 2000 was thus passed as the Act No21 of 2000 got
Presidentrsquos assent on 9 June and was made effective from 17 October 2000
The Act essentially deals with the following issues
Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
Offenses and Contraventions
Justice Dispensation Systems for cyber crimes [6]
Amendment Act 2008 Being the first legislation in the nation on technology computers and
ecommerce and e-communication the Act was the subject of extensive debates elaborate
reviews and detailed criticisms with one arm of the industry criticizing some sections of the Actto be draconian and other stating it is too diluted and lenient There were some conspicuous
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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omissions too resulting in the investigators relying more and more on the time-tested (one and
half century-old) Indian Penal Code even in technology based cases with the IT Act also being
referred in the process and the reliance more on IPC rather on the ITA
Thus the need for an amendment ndash a detailed one ndash was felt for the IT Act almost from the year
2003-04 themselves Major industry bodies were consulted and advisory groups were formed
to go into the perceived lacunae in the IT Act and comparing it with similar legislations in other
nations and to suggest recommendations Such recommendations were analyzed and
subsequently taken up as a comprehensive Amendment Act and after considerable
administrative procedures the consolidated amendment called the Information Technology
Amendment Act 2008 was placed in the Parliament and passed without much debate towards
the end of 2008 This
Amendment Act got the President assent on 5 Feb 2009 and was made effective from 27
October 2009
Some of the notable features of the ITAA are as follows
Focusing on data privacy
Focusing on Information Security
Defining cyber cafeacuteMaking digital signature technology neutral
Defining reasonable security practices to be followed by corporate
Redefining the role of intermediaries
Recognizing the role of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Inclusion of some additional cyber crimes like child pornography and cyber terrorism
Authorizing an Inspector to investigate cyber offences (as against the DSP earlier)
INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Talking about Indian scenario of cyber space crimes and cyber space laws there was no statute
in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues jurisdiction issues intellectual
property rights issues and a number of other legal questions With the tendency of misusing of
technology there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the
cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology IT ACT 2000 was enacted by
Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce e-governance e-banking as well aspenalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes The above Act was further amended in
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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the form of IT Amendment Act 2008 Also certain sections of IPC and as some cyber space
crime are invading right to privacy article 21 of Indian constitution are some governing laws for
cyber space crime which imposes various liabilities in India
CONSTITUTIONAL LIABILITY
Hacking into someonersquos private property or stealing some onersquos intellectual work is a complete
violation of his right to privacy The Indian constitution does not specifically provide the ldquoright to
privacyrdquo as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens but it is protected
under IPC
Right to privacy is an important natural need of every human being as it creates boundaries
around an individual where the other personrsquos entry is restricted The right to privacy prohibits
interference or intrusion in others private life The apex court of India has clearly affirmed in its
judicial pronouncements that right to privacy is very much a part of the fundamental right
guaranteed under article 21 of the Indian constitution
Thus right to privacy is coming under the expended ambit of article 21 of Indian constitution So
whenever there is some cyber crime which is related to the persons private property or its
personal stuff then the accused can be charged of violation of article 21 of Indian constitution
and prescribed remedy can be invoked against the accused
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Criminal liability in India for cyber crimes is defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Certain
Following sections of IPC deal with the various cyber crimes
Sending threatening messages by e-mail (Sec 503 IPC)
Word gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (Sec509 IPC)
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail (Sec 499 IPC)
Bogus websites Cyber Frauds (Sec 420 IPC)
E-mail Spoofing (Sec 463 IPC )
Making a false document (Sec464 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec468 IPC)
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation (Sec469 IPC)
Web-Jacking (Sec 383 IPC)E-mail Abuse (Sec 500 IPC)
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Punishment for criminal intimidation (Sec506 IPC)
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication (Sec507 IPC)
Obscenity (Sec 292 IPC )
Printing etc of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail
(Sec292A IPC)
Sale etc of obscene objects to young person (Sec 293 IPC)
Obscene acts and songs (Sec294 IPC )
Theft of Computer Hardware (Sec 378 )
Punishment for theft (Sec379 )
Other then the IPC some other piece of legislations also imposes criminal liability on the
accused and these legislations are-
Online Sale of Drugs (NDPS Act )
Online Sale of Arms (Arms Act )
Copyright infringement (Sec51 of copyright act 1957)
Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of (Sec63 of copyright act
1957)
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions (Sec63 A of copyright act
1957)
Knowing use of infringing copy of computer program to be an offence (Sec63B of
copyright act 1957)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IPC provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home Ministry in 2012 there are 601 cases filed under the various
provisions of IPC [7]
TORTIOUS LIABILITY
Basic liability in cyber crime is established through the principle of neighborhood established
from the case of Donoghue v Stevenson But the major tortuous liability in cyber crimes is
through Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended)
In India the Information Technology Act 2000 was passed to provide legal recognition for
transactions carried out by means of electronic communication The Act deals with the lawrelating to Digital Contracts Digital Property and Digital Rights Any violation of these laws
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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constitutes a crime The Act prescribes very high punishments for such crimes The Information
Technology (amendment) Act 2008(Act 10 of 2009) has further enhanced the punishments
Life imprisonment and fine upto rupees ten lakhs may be given for certain classes of cyber
crimes Compensation up to rupees five crores can be given to affected persons if damage is
done to the computer computer system or computer network by the introduction of virus
denial of services etc
The following sections are dealing with the cyber crimes
Penalty and Compensation for damage to computer computer system etc (sec 43 IT
act)
Compensation for failure to protect data (sec 43A IT Act)
Tampering with computer source Documents (sec 65 IT Act)
Hacking with computer systems Data Alteration (sec 66 IT Act)
Sending offensive messages through communication service etc (sec 66A IT Act)
Dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device (sec 66B IT
Act)
Identity theft (sec 66C IT Act)
Cheating by personating by using computer resource (sec 66D IT Act)
Violation of privacy (sec 66E IT Act)
Cyber terrorism (sec 66F Act)Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form (sec 67 IT Act)
Publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act etc in electronic form
(sec 67A IT Act)
Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit
act etc in electronic form (sec 67B IT Act)
Preservation and Retention of information by intermediaries (sec67C IT Act)
Powers to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information
through any computer resource (sec 69 IT Act)
Power to issue directions for blocking for public access of any information through any
computer resource (sec 69A IT Act)
Power to authorize to monitor and collect traffic data or information through any computer
resource for Cyber Security (sec 69B IT Act)
Un-authorized access to protected system (sec 70 IT Act)
Penalty for misrepresentation (sec 71 IT Act)
Breach of confidentiality and privacy (sec 72 IT Act)Publishing False digital signature certificates (sec 73 IT Act)
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
Punishment for abetment of offences (sec 84B IT Act)
Punishment for attempt to commit offences (sec 84C IT Act)
Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Publication for fraudulent purpose (sec 74 IT Act)
Act to apply for offence or contraventions committed outside India (sec 75 IT Act)
Compensation penalties or confiscation not to interfere with other punishment
(sec 77 IT Act)
Compounding of Offences (sec77A IT Act)
Offences with three years imprisonment to be cognizable (sec 77B IT Act)
Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases (sec 79 IT Act)
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Offences by Companies (sec 85 IT Act)
The applications of these sections are subject to the investigating style of investigating officer
and charge sheet filed by the investigating agency and nature of cyber crime
In India there are number of cases filed under these IT provisions related to the cyber crime
According to the report of Home ministry of India In 2012 there are 2876 cases filed under the
various provisions of IT act [9]
ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CYBER LAWS AND
POLICING SYSTEMNoted cyber law expert in the nation and Supreme Court advocate Shri Pavan Duggal ldquoWhile
the lawmakers have to be complemented for their admirable work removing various deficiencies
in the Indian Cyber law and making it technologically neutral yet it appears that there has been
a major mismatch between the expectation of the nation and the resultant effect of the
amended legislation The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
these amendments seek to make the Indian cyber law a cyber crime friendly legislation ndash a
legislation that goes extremely soft on cyber criminals with a soft heart a legislation thatchooses to encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment accorded to
them under the existing law hellip a legislation which makes a majority of cybercrimes stipulated
under the IT Act as bailable offences a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
the potential cyber crime capital of the worldhelliphelliprdquo [11]
Let us not be pessimistic that the existing legislation is cyber criminal friendly or paves the way
to increase crimes Certainly it does not It is a commendable piece of legislation a landmark
first step and a remarkable mile-stone in the technological growth of the nation But let us not
be complacent that the existing law would suffice Let us remember that the criminals always go
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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faster than the investigators and always try to be one step ahead in technology
There are several loopholes in IT Act as-
The hurry in which the legislation was passed without sufficient public debate did not
really serve the desired purpose Experts are of the opinion that one of the reasons for the
inadequacy of the legislation has been the hurry in which it was passed by the parliament
and it is also a fact that sufficient time was not given for public debate But many
problems of the act were amended by the amended act of 2008 [12]
Uniform law
Mr Vinod Kumar holds the opinion that the need of the hour is a worldwide uniform cyber law to
combat cyber crime Cyber crime is a global phenomenon and therefore the initiative to fight it
should come from the same level [13]
Lack of awareness
The Act of 2000 is not achieving complete success because of the lack of awareness among
the masses about their rights Further most of the cases are going unreported If only the people
are vigilant about their rights can the law protect their rights
Raising a cyber army-
There is a need for a well equipped task force to deal with the new trends of hi tech crime The
government has taken a leap in this direction by constituting cyber crime cells in all metropolitan
and other important cities Further the establishment of the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell
(CCIC) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Cyber savvy bench
Cyber savvy judges are the need of the day Judiciary plays a vital role in shaping the enactment
according to the order of the day One such stage which needs appreciation is the PIL which
the Kerala High Court has accepted through an email
Dynamic form of cyber crime
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Speaking on the dynamic nature of cyber crime FBI Director Louis Freeh has said ldquoIn short
even though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight cyber intrusions the problem is
growing even faster and we are falling further behindrdquo The (de)creativity of human mind cannot
be checked by any law Thus the only way out is the liberal construction while applying the
statutory provisions to cyber crime cases
Hesitation to report offences
As stated above one of the fatal drawbacks of the Act has been the cases going unreported
One obvious reason is the non-cooperative police force ldquoThe police are a powerful force today
which can play an instrumental role in preventing cybercrime At the same time it can also end
up wielding the rod and harassing innocents preventing them from going about their normal
cyber businessrdquo For complete realization of the provisions of this Act a cooperative police force
is required [14]
Apart from these loopholes and problems the present form of police system and many police
officials are not familiar with the cyber crimes and they need training to be familiar with the
ldquoModus operandirdquo of cyber crimes though the existing relevant act is comprehensive legislation
but from the practical point of view there are some shortcomings in the errant form of the act It
is the need of the hour that the efficiency of police system at all ranks should be upgraded in
terms of cyber crimes The immoral lethal minds of criminals take advantages of inefficientpolice system
Both bench and Bar should realize the extent of cyber crimes They should familiarize
themselves with the intricacies of cyber law otherwise they would find it extremely difficult to
deal with cyber crime cases
CYBER CRIME CASES IN INDIAPune Citibank Mphasis Call Center Fraud
It is a case of sourcing engineering US $ 3 50000 from City bank accounts of four US
customers were dishonestly transferred to bogus accounts in Pune through internet Some
employees of a call centre gained the confidence of the
US customers and obtained their PIN numbers under the guise of helping the customers out of difficult situations Later they used these numbers to commit fraud By April 2005 the Indian
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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police had tipped off to the scam by a US bank and quickly identified the individuals involved
in the scam Arrests were made when those individuals attempted to withdraw cash from the
falsified accounts $426000 was stolen the amount recovered was $230000
Court held that Section 43(a) was applicable here due to the nature of unauthorized access
involved to commit transactions
State of Tamil Nadu Vs Suhas Katti
The case related to posting of obscene defamatory and annoying message about a divorcee
woman in the yahoo message group E-Mails were also forwarded to the victim for information
by the accused through a false e-mail account opened by him in the name of the victim The
posting of the message resulted in annoying phone calls to the lady in the belief that she was
soliciting Based on a complaint made by the victim in February 2004 the Police traced the
accused to Mumbai and arrested him within the next few days This is considered as the first
case in the state of Tamil Nadu in which the offender was convicted under section 67 of
Information Technology Act 2000 in India
The Bank NSP Case
The Bank NSP case is the one where a management trainee of the bank was engaged to bemarried The couple exchanged many emails using the company computers After some time
the two broke up and the girl created fraudulent email ids such as ldquoIndian bar associationsrdquo and
sent emails to the boyrsquos foreign clients She used the banks computer to do this The boyrsquos
company lost a large number of clients and took the bank to court The bank was held liable for
the emails sent using the bankrsquos system
SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt Ltd v Jogesh Kwatra
In this case the defendant Jogesh Kwatra being an employee of the plaintiff company started
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar filthy and abusive emails to his employers as
also to different subsidiaries of the said company all over the world with the aim to defame the
company and its Managing Director The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from
sending derogatory defamatory obscene vulgar humiliating and abusive emails either to the
plaintiffs or to its sister subsidiaries all over the world including their Managing Directors and
their Sales and Marketing departments Further Honrsquoble Judge also restrained the defendantfrom publishing transmitting or causing to be published any information in the actual world as
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Reality
Cloud Computing A Wanna Know How to Issues The Challenges
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Bankruptcy amp Insolvency
Biotechnology Law
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competition
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Copyright
Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance
Criminal Law
Criminology and Victimology
Economic Offences
Economics
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Family Law
Gender and Law
Humanitarian and Refugee Law
Humanities
Indian Evidence Act
Indian Penal Code
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Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Rights
International Commercial Arbitration
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IPR in Pharma Industry
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Law of Torts
Legal History
Legal MethodsLegal Services Authorities ActLok
Adalats
Maritime Law
Media amp Cyber Law
Mediation
Merger amp Acquisition
Offences Against Child amp Juvenile
Offence
Patents
Penology amp Victimology
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Private International Law
Probation and Parole
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Property Law
Public International Law
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Sociology
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Special Contract
Tax Law
Trademarks
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White Collar Crime
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also in cyberspace which is derogatory or defamatory or abusive of the plaintiffs This order of
Delhi High Court assumes tremendous significance as this is for the first time that an Indian
Court assumes jurisdiction in a matter concerning cyber defamation and grants an injunction
restraining the defendant from defaming the plaintiffs by sending defamatory emails
SonySambandhCom Case
A complaint was filed by Sony India Private Ltd which runs a website called
wwwsonysambandhcom targeting Non Resident Indians In May 2002 someone logged onto
the website under the identity of Barbara Campa and ordered a Sony Colour Television set and
a cordless head phone She gave her credit card number for payment and requested that the
products be delivered to Arif Azim in Noida After one and a half months the credit card agency
informed the company that this was an unauthorized transaction as the real owner had denied
having made the purchase The company lodged a complaint for online cheating at the Central
Bureau of Investigation The court convicted Arif Azim for cheating under Section 418 419 and
420 of the Indian Penal Code This was the first time that a cyber crime has been convicted
The judgment is of immense significance for the entire nation Besides being the first conviction
in a cyber crime matter it has shown that the Indian Penal Code can be effectively applied to
certain categories of cyber crimes which are not covered under the Information Technology Act
2000
Nasscom v Ajay Sood amp Others
The plaintiff in this case was the National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) Indiarsquos premier software association The defendants were operating a placement
agency involved in head-hunting and recruitment In order to obtain personal data which they
could use for purposes of head-hunting the defendants composed and sent e-mails to third
parties in the name of Nasscom The High court recognised the trademark rights of the plaintiff
and passed an injunction restraining the defendants from using the trade name or any other
name deceptively similar to Nasscom According to the terms of compromise the defendants
agreed to pay a sum of Rs16 million to the plaintiff as damages for violation of the plaintiffrsquos
trademark rights The Delhi HC stated that even though there is no specific legislation in India to
penalize phishing it held phishing to be an illegal act by defining it under Indian law as ldquoa
misrepresentation made in the course of trade leading to confusion as to the source and origin
of the e-mail causing immense harm not only misusedrdquo The court held that to the consumer
but even to the person whose name identity or password is act of phishing as passing off andtarnishing the plaintiffrsquos image
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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Page 23 of 33httpwwwlawctopuscomacademikecyber-crimes-other-liabilities
held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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Page 24 of 33httpwwwlawctopuscomacademikecyber-crimes-other-liabilities
In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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This case achieves clear milestones It brings the act of ldquophishingrdquo into the ambit of India laws
even in the absence of specific legislation It clears the misconception that there is nordquo damages
culturerdquo in India for violation of IP rights
Bazeecom case
On 9 December 2004 a news item appeared with the Headline ldquoDPS sex video at baazeecomrdquo
The news item stated ldquoIndiarsquos biggest online trading portal baazeecom had listed the said
MMS clip under the title lsquoDPS girls having funrsquo with the member ID of 27877408 CEO of the
website Baazeecom was summoned by the Delhi High Court for having allowed this clip to be
listed for auction under sections 67 and 85 of the IT Act 2000 While Section 67 prohibits
publishing obscene information in electronic form Section 85 allows the prosecution of a
person responsible for the business of a company over violations This incident caused a
sudden panic across the country and many discussions regarding the inefficiency of the IT Act
2000 and the need to amend it started Also after this scandal owing to debates around
culpability liability and prosecution of material on the internet several key judgments were
passed including banning the use of mobile phones in college and school campuses across
India
PNB Pune case
In the largest compensation awarded in legal adjudication of a cyber crime dispute
Maharashtrarsquos IT secretary Rajesh Aggarwal has ordered Punjab National Bank to pay Rs 45
lakh to Manmohan Singh Matharu MD of Pune-based firm Poona Auto Ancillaries A fraudster
had transferred Rs 8010 lakh from Matharursquos account in PNB Pune after Matharu responded
to a phishing email Matharu has been asked to share the liability since he responded to the
phishing mail Matharursquos is one of 13 e-fraud cases all originating in Maharashtra and with an
imprint across six states in which the statersquos IT secretary serving as an adjudicating officer
under the IT Act 2000 last month passed critical orders against nine banks four telecom firms
and two mobile recharge portals These cases cover e-fraud committed through illegal data
access hacking bank accounts cloning credit cards issuing duplicate SIM cards and phishing
among others
Syed Asifuddin and Ors Vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
In this case Tata Indicom employees manipulated the electronic 32- bit number (ESN)programmed into cell phones theft were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm Court
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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Page 24 of 33httpwwwlawctopuscomacademikecyber-crimes-other-liabilities
In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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100516 698309844 PMCrimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
Page 27 of 33httpwwwlawctopuscomacademikecyber-crimes-other-liabilities
IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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held that tampering with source code invokes Section 65 of the Information Technology Act
Bomb Hoax mail
In 2009 a 15-year-old Bangalore teenager was arrested by the cyber crime investigation cell
(CCIC) of the city crime branch for allegedly sending a hoax e- mail to a private news channel In
the e-mail he claimed to have planted five bombs in Mumbai challenging the police to find
them before it was too late
The Mumbai police have registered a case of lsquocyber terrorismrsquomdashthe first in the state since an
amendment to the Information Technology Actmdashwhere a threat email was sent to the BSE and
NSE on Monday The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly
probing the case The suspect has been detained in this case
The MRA Marg police have registered forgery for purpose of cheating criminal intimidation
cases under the IPC and a cyber-terrorism case under the IT Act
COMPARATIVE STUDY
As against the alone legislation ITA and ITAA in India in many other nations globally there are
many legislations governing e-commerce and cyber crimes going into all the facets of cybercrimes Data Communication storage child pornography electronic records and data privacy
have all been addressed in separate Acts and Rules giving thrust in the particular area focused
in the Act
United States of America
USA have the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act popularly known as HIPAA
which inter alia regulates all health and insurance related records their upkeep and
maintenance and the issues of privacy and confidentiality involved in such recordsThe
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) signed into law in 2002 mandated a number of reforms to enhance
corporate responsibility enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting
fraud Besides there are a number of laws in the US both at the federal level and at different
states level like the Cable Communications Policy Act Childrenrsquos Internet Protection Act and
Childrenrsquos Online Privacy Protection Act etc
United Kingdom
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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International Labour Laws
International Law
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International Trade Law
International Treaty Arbitration
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Investment Law
IPR in Pharma Industry
Jurisprudence
Labour Law
Land Acquisition
Law and Economics
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Law of Torts
Legal History
Legal MethodsLegal Services Authorities ActLok
Adalats
Maritime Law
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Merger amp Acquisition
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Uncategorized
White Collar Crime
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In the UK the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
etc are all regulatory legislations already existing in the area of information security and cyber
crime prevention besides cyber crime law passed recently in August 2011
Similar to these countries we also have cyber crime legislations and other rules and regulations
in other nations like Australia New Zealand China etc
INTERPOLrsquoS ROLE-
INTERPOLrsquos cybercrime programme is built around training and operations and works to keep
up with emerging threats It aims to
Promote the exchange of information among member countries through regional working
parties and conferences
Deliver training courses to build and maintain professional standards
Coordinate and assist international operations
Establish a global list of contact officers available around the clock for cybercrime
investigations (the list contained 134 contacts at the end of 2012)
Assist member countries in the event of cyber-attacks or cybercrime investigations through
investigative and database services
Develop strategic partnerships with other international organizations and private sector
bodies
Identify emerging threats and share this intelligence with member countries
Provide a secure web portal for accessing operational information and documents
Cyber crimes cases in other Countries
Worm Attack First person to be prosecuted under the lsquoComputer and Fraud Act 1986rsquo
was the Robert Tappan Morris well Known as First Hacker His worm was uncontrollabledue to which around 6000 computer machines were destroyed and many computers
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
8162019 Crimes in Cyberspace Right to Privacy and Other Issues - Academike
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Reality
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Competition Law
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Corporate Governance
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International Human Rights Law
International Labour Laws
International Law
International Organization
International Trade Law
International Treaty Arbitration
Interpretation of Statutes
Investment Law
IPR in Pharma Industry
Jurisprudence
Labour Law
Land Acquisition
Law and Economics
Law of the Sea
Law of Torts
Legal History
Legal MethodsLegal Services Authorities ActLok
Adalats
Maritime Law
Media amp Cyber Law
Mediation
Merger amp Acquisition
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Sociology
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Special Contract
Tax Law
Trademarks
Uncategorized
White Collar Crime
Women amp Criminal Law
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Contracts and Quasi Contracts
The setting red sun of dark water
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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negligence in handling sensitive personal information Additionally the Government of India with
the help of the Department of Information Technology is currently working on a holistic law on
data protection based on the European Union directive Further the government plans to create
a ldquoCommon Criterion Labrdquo backed by the Information Security Technical Development Council
where intensive research in cryptography and product security can be undertaken As
Prevention is always better than cure a smart internet user should take certain precautions
while operating the internet and should follow certain preventive measures for cyber crimes
these measures can be considered as suggestions also
A person should never send his credit card number to any site that is not secured to
guard against frauds
One should avoid disclosing any personal information to strangers via e-mail or while
chatting
One must avoid sending any photograph to strangers by online as misusing of
photograph incidents increasing day by day
It is always the parents who have to keep a watch on the sites that your children are
accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or depravation in children
Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site It is the
responsibility of the web site owners to adopt some policy for preventing cyber crimes as
number of internet users are growing day by day
Strict statutory laws need to be passed by the Legislatures keeping in mind the interest of
netizens (cybercitizen or an entity or person actively involved in online communities and a
user of the Internet)
Web servers running public sites must be physically separately protected from internal
corporate network
An update Anti-virus software to guard against virus attacks should be used by all the
netizens and should also keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in
case of virus contamination
It is better to use a security program by the body corporate to control information on sites
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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IT department should pass certain guidelines and notifications for the protection of
computer system and should also bring out with some more strict laws to breakdown the
criminal activities relating to cyberspace
As Cyber Crime is the major threat to all the countries worldwide certain steps should be
taken at the international level for preventing the cybercrime
Special police task force which is expert in techno field will be constituted
Complete justice must be provided to the victims of cyber crimes by way of compensatory
remedy and offenders to be punished with highest type of punishment so that it will
anticipate the criminals of cyber crime [15]
Edited By Parul Padhi
[1] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[2] Information Technology Act 2000A computer has multifarious functions and it is regarded as
a superman It provides information as well as communication by means of internet It is the
fastest mean for input and output of transportation of informations In official meaning the term
ldquointernetrdquo is popularly known as ldquoworld wide webrdquo (www)
[3] httpwwwlegalindiain accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[4] httpcybercellmumbaigovin accessed on 1 Dec 2013
[5] Ibid
[6] httpjurisonlinein accessed on 2 Dec 2013
[7] httpwwwmhanicin accessed on 4 Dec 2013
[8] Ibid
[90 Ibid
[10] Ibid
nd
th
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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Special Contract
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[11] Pawan Duggal Is this treaty a treat Available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[12] Ibid
[13] Kumar Vinod Winning the Battle against cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwcyberriskinsuranceforumcomcontentare-we-losing-battle-against-cyber-crime
[14] Dewang Mehta Role of Police in Tackling Cyber Crimes available at
httpwwwnaaviorgpatipati_cybercrimes_dec03htm
[15] Ibid
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