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The Indian Police JournalSection 67 says that 7 , whoever publishes or transmits or causes to bepublished in the electronic form, any material, which is lascivious orappeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to depraveand corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevantcircumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodiedwhich may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second orsubsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for aextend to two lakh rupees.• Unauthorized AccessSection 43(a) 8 deals with unauthorized access: It says that if anyperson without permission of the owner or any other personwho is in charge of a computer, computer system or computernetwork, accesses or secures access to such computer, computersystem or computer Network;he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation notexceeding one crore rupees to the person so affected.• Hacking“Hacking” is a crime, which entails cracking systems and gainingunauthorized access to the data stored in them. Hacking hadwitnessed a 37% increase this year. 9Section 66 says that 10 – likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or anyperson destroys or deletes or alters any information residingin a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility oraffects it injuriously by any means, commits hack. extend upto two lakh rupees, or with both.7Section 67 of Information Technology Act, 2000.8Section 43(a) of Information Technology Act, 2000.9Available at: http://www.gcl.in/downloads/bm_cybercrime.pdf.Browsed on 6 th January, 2012 at 4 .00 PM.10Section 66 of Information Technology Act, 2000.110 January - March, 2013