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Harsh punishment for cyber crimes
By Our Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI, FEB. 1. Taking a serious note of the increasing cyber crimes, the Centre, which has framed rules under the Information Technology Act, today announced stringent punishment and penalties for various types of cyber crimes.
According to an official release, ``whoever without the permission of the person in-charge of the computer system access, downloads any data, introduces computer virus, causes denial of access'' will be liable to a penalty up to Rs. 1 crore.
``Whoever tampers with computer source documents knowingly or intentionally conceals, destroys or alters or causes another to conceal, destroy or alter any computer sources code shall be punishable with imprisonment up to three years or fine which may extend up to Rs. 2 lakhs or with both.''
In the area of hacking, whoever with the intent to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer source, shall be punished with imprisonment for three years or fine up to Rs. 2 lakhs or both.
In the area of electronic pornography, whoever publishes or transmits in electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest will be punished to undergo imprisonment for five years with a fine of Rs. one lakh.
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