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Cyber Crime and Law India got its first codified Act in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act),
which fell far short of the Industry’s requirements to meet global standards. The focus if
the IT Act was however recognition of electronic records and facilitation of e-commerce.

Notes Barely ten sections were incorporated in the IT Act to deal with Cyber Crime.
At the time when the IT Act was passed several acts deemed to be illegal in most
jurisdictions including virus attacks, data theft, illegal access to data / accessing and
removal of data without the consent of the owner, etc., were listed as civil penalties
under the IT Act. The IT Industry continued to rely on self –regulation and contractual
undertakings to appease its global clients, as it had done before the passing of the IT

Act. The primary offences under the IT Act were:
 Tampering with source code;

 Deleting, destroying or altering any data on any computer resource with mala
fide intent to cause wrongful loss or to diminish its value;
 Publishing or transmitting pornographic material through a computer
resource;

 Provisions pertaining to encryption technology, the right of the Government
authorities to intercept and decrypt such data and to call upon any entity or
individual to decrypt such data were also included in the IT Act. Certain
acts affecting the integrity and sovereignty of the nation were classified as
offences.

In the era of 21st century which is going more advances and developing day by
day, where technologies promote themselves with a rapid rate, which attracts human
mind as it is much suitable for them in their busy & hectic schedule. However, all new
technologies are less time consuming and much beneficial for human point of view.
Since, 21st century is much popular in itself which is stick in every human mind as
it is an era which is now known for the upcoming war i.e., termed as cyber war where
the fight is not between arms and explosives but it occurs between computers/laptops or

any electronic gadget which consists of web application in it. However, security is much
important area for each and every organization or any firms which consists of personnel
information of any individual. The challenges in such cases are not only technological,
but also jurisdictional. Many countries are involving itself to combating the cybercrime by
implementing laws and acts, while India is a country which implement their jurisdictional
problems by implementing Information Technology Act, 2000 (Amended 2008) with
certain guidelines, various laws for cybercrime with its objective.

The issues which are arising with Indian Government are that many of its
government officials didn’t know how to investigate cybercrimes. However, this is not
the problem of Indian government but many other countries facing the same problem

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