AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CYBER-CRIME WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000

Under this research paper, the authors will try to express various cyber crimes in India with different statutory provisions in the Indian context. With the advancement of computers and various other technological devices, technology has been at the tip of fingers. But there is another major issue, that is, the issue of cyber crime and other IT related crimes has increased considerably as we are well aware of traditional crimes like theft, extortion, robbery, murder, etc. These crimes fall under the category of traditional crimes, in contrast to cyber-crime being a newly developed crime in which there is very little awareness among the people at large. It is worth noting that, these days the issue of cybercrime is very important. Especially in a country like India, where there is already little jurisprudence developed on cyber laws, crime rates have increased. Since the issue of cybercrime has arisen recently, more attention needs to be paid to deal with these newly developed crimes. With the advancement of technology and its use cyber frauds such as email spoofing, phishing, spamming, cyber defamation, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) etc. occur. There has been a huge increase. India lacks a proper legal regime to deal with cyber crimes. We have only one specific law to deal with cyber crimes, that is, the Information Technology Act, 2000