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The instant petition sought regulatory measures for children’s social-media access, including age restrictions, content filtering, privacy safeguards and verification mechanisms.
A senior citizen NRI’s email was hacked, and Punjab National Bank wired USD 92,420 to Singapore on email instructions alone, without verification or authentication. The Adjudicating Officer held the bank liable for the unrecovered balance, with interest.
The Court held that the telecommunication services provider was liable for its negligent issuance of a duplicate SIM card leading to SIM-Swap fraud, and Central Bank of India cannot be fully absolved of their auxiliary liability as they failed to perform the physical release and remittance of the contractually frozen amount back to the complainant even after an interim order, thereby unlawfully disrupting the velocity of the complainant’s capital despite the clear judicial intervention of the Court.
The Court passed an ex-parte ad-interim injunction against the respondents on ground of data theft, protecting complainant’s proprietary customer database upon observing that a prima facie case has been established showing unauthorized data copying, download, and extraction within the strict definition of Section 43(b), Information Technology Act, 2000.
Calcutta High Court held that ChatGPT’s generative qualities prima facie make it an originator rather than an intermediary, while acknowledging the question is ultimately “complicated and vexed” and can only be decided at trial with technical and expert evidence.
“The arrest made before the registration of FIR, on the basis of illegal telephone tapping and unauthorized search and seizure, held to be illegal and unconstitutional.”
With the Winter Session in motion, Rajya Sabha saw the introduction of major amendment bills spanning the Constitution, Representation of the People Act, and Data Protection laws.
This article aims to shed light on several tangents of cybercrimes including the emerging threat of Digital Arrests and scrutinizes the statutory framework and regulating scaffolding of cyber laws, and procedural mechanism for initiating cyber-crime complaints (Online/Offline).
The Court directed thatImmediately on release he shall delete all the offensive messages and refrain from making any vituperative or disparaging comments against women in any of the social media platform.
Defendants 2 to 4 edited the page pertaining to the plaintiff to include allegedly false, misleading and defamatory remarks/content against the Plaintiff. It is stated that the remarks and statements against the plaintiff form a substantial portion of the Plaintiff’s Page, which is accessible to users and non-users of the Platform.
Cybersecurity and Cybercrime in India: Emerging Trends and Solutions
“A prosecution witness, who was examined already, cannot be recalled by exercising the powers under Section 233 CrPC. However, such an exercise can be done under Section 311 CrPC at any stage, including that of Section 233, provided all the requirements and parameters of Section 311 are otherwise satisfied.”
“Trust forms the bedrock of matrimonial relationships. The spouses must have implicit and total faith and confidence in each other. Snooping on the other destroys the fabric of marital life. One cannot pry on the other.”
The film is based on the Maharaj Libel Case of 1862 rendered by English Judges and allegedly contains scandalous and defamatory language, which affects the Pustimargi sect as a whole.
by Yash Bajpai* and George Janssen**
“For a special statute, such as the IT Act, to override the general law, such as the IPC, the ingredients of the offence under both laws must be the same. If any ingredient of an offense under the IPC is missing in the act made punishable under the special statute, the IPC will not be excluded, and it can still be resorted to.”
by Nishant Verma†
by Nilanjan Sen†, Sumeir Ahuja††, Shubhamay Dutta††† and Varun Pathania††††