Indian parliament has passed a bill on 23/Dec that is going to make cyber laws more tough and is going to arm the cyber cops with more power. Here is what TOI has to say:
Transmitting material containing sexually explicit acts in electronic form would be punishable by imprisonment of upto five years along with a fine of upto Rs 10 lakh.
For those indulging in cyber terrorism, the new legislation provides for stiff penalty of life imprisonment. The bill also says that dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource, identity theft, cheating by personation by using computer resource and violation of privacy will result in imprisonment upto three years apart from fine between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.
Given the rapid rise of incidents of cyber crime in India, I certainly welcome this move. The only thing to be seen from the Indian cyber cops is the enforcement. Also, I wish that they do proper investigations in any case. Unfortunate incidents like these bring more fear than fearlessness in citizens.
*1 million = 10 lakh ; *1$ = ~ Rs 50
Ankur Jain is a Software Engineer in Test Automation. After a 5 years stint with Accenture and Oracle, he started his eLearning company. A long-time blogger and proud owner of the "Learn" series of websites. 