Jurisprudence of Cyber Law
Jurisprudence of Cyber Law
Jurisprudence of Cyber Law
The Bombay High Court, in its order dated 9th October 2002, directed the
Central Government to announce the appointment of adjudicating officers
in the public media to make people aware of the appointments. The
division bench of the Mumbai High Court consisting of Hon’ble Justice
A.P. Shah and Hon’ble Justice Ranjana Desai also ordered that the
Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal be constituted within a reasonable
time frame.
Following this the Central Government passed an order dated 23rd March
2003 appointing the “Secretary of Department of Information Technology
of each of the States or of Union Territories” of India as the adjudicating
officers.
The Indian Penal Code (as amended by the IT Act) penalizes several
cyber crimes. These include forgery of electronic records, cyber frauds,
destroying electronic evidence etc.
The Reserve Bank of India Act was also amended by the IT Act.