| Section |
Coverage |
Imprisonment/Fine Existing /Proposed |
| Section 70 |
1. Protection of critical information Infrastructure.
(covers Cyberterrorism) |
Upto 10
years + fine |
Upto 10
years + fine |
| Section 69 |
2. To safeguard national interest, non-cooperation with
designated Govt. agencies to intercept or monitor or decrypt any information
through any computer resource. |
Upto 7
years |
Upto 7
years |
| Section 65 |
3. Tampering with computer source documents |
Upto 3
years and/or with a fine upto Rs. 2 Lakh |
Upto 3
years and/or with a fine upto Rs. 2 Lakh |
| Section 67(1) |
4. Publishing or transmitting or causes to be published
in electronic form any obscene material |
5 years
+ Rs. 1 Lakh
10 years
+ Rs. 2 Lakhs |
1st conviction upto 2 years + fine upto Rs. 5 Lakh
2nd conviction or subsequent upto 5 years + fine upto Rs. 10 Lakh |
| Section 67(2) |
5. Child pornography |
Does not
exist |
1st conviction upto 3 years + fine upto Rs. 10 Lakh
2nd conviction or subsequent conviction upto 7 years + fine upto Rs. 10 Lakh |
| Section 68 |
6. Intentional or knowing non-compliance with the
provisions of IT Act, rules or regulations made thereunder |
Upto 3
years and/or fine upto Rs. 2 Lakh |
Upto 2
years and/or fine upto Rs. 2 Lakh |
| A new section 417A in IPC |
7. Cheating using digital signature of other person |
Does not
exist |
Upto 3
years + fine |
| A new Section 419A in IPC |
8. Impersonation using communication network or computer
resource |
Does not
exist |
Upto 5
years + fine |
| Section 66(a) |
1. Accesses or secure access to a computer
resource without the permission of the owner-(covers offenses like
unauthorized access, hacking amongst others). |
3 Yrs + Rs. 2 Lakh as part of Section 66 |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (b) |
2. Downloads, copies or extract any data,
database from computer, computer system or computer network including data
held on removable storage media- (covers offenses like privacy, IPR violation,
privacy violation, database and other thefts, amongst others). |
Does not
exist |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66(c) |
3. Introduces or causes to be introduced any
computer contaminant or computer virus (covers Malware or malicious program
like viruses, worms, Trojans, spywares/adwares amongst others). |
Does not
exist |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (d) |
4. Damages, or causes to be damaged, any
computer system or computer network, data, computer database or other programs
residing therein (broad enough to cover offences like virus infected damages,
hacking amongst others). |
3 Yrs + 2 lakh as pert of Section 66 |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (e) |
5. Disrupts or causes disruption or
impairment of any computer resource, (covers offenses like instances leading
to denial-of-services(DoS), network attacks amongst other network
disruptions) |
3 Yrs + 2 lakh as pert of Section 66 |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (f) |
6. Denies or causes the denial of access to
person authorized to access any computer resource. (covers offenses like
instances leading to distributed denial-of-services(DDoS) amongst others). |
3 Yrs + 2 lakh as pert of Section 66 |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (g) |
7. Provides any assistance to any person to
facilitate access to a computer resource in contravention with the provision
of IT Act, Rules or Regulations etc. (covers instances like illegal access,
phishing, identity theft amongst others) |
Does not
exist |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 66 (h) |
8, Charges the services availed of by a
person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any
computer resource.( covers offenses like Online frauds, Internet auction
frauds amonqst others). |
Does not
exist |
Upto 2 years and/or with fine upto Rs. 5 lakh |
| Section 72(1) |
9. Breach of confidentiality and Privacy by
any person empowered by IT Act, Rules or Regulations made thereunder. |
2 Yrs + Rs. 1 Lakh |
2 years plus Rs.5 lakh |
| Section72
( 3) |
10.
Video Voyeurism |
Does not
exit |
Upto 1 year
and / or fine upto Rs. Lakh + Rs. 25 lakh Compensation |
| Section
77A |
11.
Abetment ( New) |
Does not
exit |
Punishment
as applicable to offence |
| Section
71 (1) |
12.
Penalty for misrepresentation |
1 Yr. +
fine of Rs 1 lakh |
1 Yr +
fine of Rs. 1 lakh |
| Section73
( 2) |
13.
Penalty for publishing electronic sinnature |
2 Yrs .
+ Rs 1 lakh |
2 Yrs +
Rs. 1 lakh |
| Section
74 |
14.
Publication for fraudulent purpose |
2 Yrs. +
Rs. 1 lakh |
2 Yrs. +
Rs. 1 lakh |
