Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs (Legislative Department)

43. Penalty for damage to computer, computer system, etc.

If any person without permission of the owner or any other person who is incharge of a computer, computer system or computer network -

accesses or secures access to such computer, computer system or computer network.

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downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium.
i ntroduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into any computer, computer system or computer network.
damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmes residing in such computer, computer system or computer network.
disrupts or causes disruption of any computer, computer system or computer network
denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorised to access any computer, computer system or computer network by any means.
provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder.
charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network.

he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation not exceeding one crore rupees to the person so affected.

"computer contaminant" means any set of computer instructions that are designed-
- to modify, destroy, record, transmit data or programme residing within a computer, computer system or computer network, or
- by any means to usurp the normal operation of the computer, computer system, or computer network.
"computer data base" means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions in text, image, audio, video that are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner or have been produced by a computer, computer system or computer network and are intended for use in a computer, computer system or computer network.
"computer virus" means any computer instruction, information, data or programme that destroys, damages, degrades or adversely affects the performance of a computer resource or attaches itself to another computer resource and operates when a programme, daia or instruction is executed or some other event takes place in that computer resource.
"damage" means to destroy, alter, delete, add, modify or rearrange any computer resource by any means.

44. Penalty for failure to furnish information return, etc.

If any person who is required under this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder to-

furnish any document, return or report to the Controller or ?he Certifying Authority fails to furnish the same, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one lakh and fifty thousand rupees for each such failure.
file any return or furnish any information, books or other documents within the time specified therefor in the regulations fails to file return or furnish the same within the time specified therefor in the regulations, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five thousand rupees for every day during which such failure continues.

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maintain books of account or records, fails to maintain the same, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten thousand rupees for every day during which the failure continues.

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