Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Cyber Pornography
Cyber Pornography
Section 67 of IT Act
Publishing, transmitting, causing to be
Strict punishment
5 years jail (SI or RI) + 1 lakh fine 10 years jail (SI or RI) + 2 lakh fine
Baazee case
Baazee case
Obscene MMS clipping listed for sale on 27th November, 2004 - DPS Girl having fun".
Some copies sold through Baazee.com
Avnish Bajaj (CEO) arrested and his bail application was rejected by the trial court.
The accused did not stop payment through banking channels after learning of the illegal nature of the transaction.
The item description "DPS Girl having fun" should have raised an alarm.
It has not been established from the evidence that any publication took place by the accused, directly or indirectly.
The actual obscene recording/clip could not be viewed on the portal of Baazee.com.
Even though the accused is a foreign citizen, he is of Indian origin with family roots in India. The evidence indicates
only that the obscene material may have been
Court order
The court granted bail to Mr. Bajaj subject to furnishing two sureties of Rs. 1 lakh each.
The court ordered Mr. Bajaj to
surrender his passport not to leave India without Court permission to participate and assist in the investigation.
Protected Systems
Protected Systems
Gazette notification for declaring protected system. Government order authorizing persons to access protected systems. 10 years jail for accessing or attempting to access protected systems.
Govt of Kerala declared the FRIENDS application software as a protected system. The author of the application software challenged the notification and the constitutional validity of section 70.
The Court upheld the validity of both
Altering
Destroying
Tata Indicom employees were arrested for manipulation of the electronic 32-bit number (ESN) programmed into cell phones that were exclusively franchised to Reliance Infocomm.
The court held that such manipulation amounted to tampering with computer source code as envisaged by section 65.
Digital Evidence
Several terrorists attacked Parliament House on 13-Dec-01 Digital evidence played an important role during their prosecution. The accused had argued that computers and digital evidence can easily be tampered and hence should not be relied upon.
A laptop, several smart media storage disks and devices were recovered from a truck intercepted at Srinagar pursuant to information given by two of the suspects.
These articles were deposited in the police malkhana on 16-Dec-01 but some files were written onto the laptop on 21-Dec-01.
leaders with Parliament in background shot from TV news channels, scanned images of front and rear of a genuine identity card,
'Ashiq'. Ashiq was the name in one of the fake identity cards used by the terrorists.
General Overview
General overview
General overview
Malicious code
DOS attacks Piracy