CASE LAWS

This page will have case laws. Crime already committed in India. In due course of time there will be more addittions to this page.

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The following are some of the important cases impacting the growth of Cyberlaw in India

Ritu Kohli Case:

Ritu Kohli Case, being India's first case of cyber stalking, was indeed an important revelation into the mind of the Indian cyber stalker.A young Indian girl being cyber stalked by a former colleague of her husband, Ritu Kohli's case took the imagination of India by storm.

The case which got cracked however predated the passing of the Indian Cyberlaw and hence it was just registered as a minor offences under the Indian Penal Code.

State of Maharashtra v/s Anand Ashok Khare:

This case related to the activities of the 23-year-old Telecom engineer Anand Ashok Khare from Mumbai who posed as the famous hacker Dr Neuker and made several attempts to hack the Mumbai police Cyber Cell website.

State of Uttar Pradesh v/s Saket Sanghania:

This case which was registered under Section 65 of the IT Act, related to theft of computer source code. Saket Singhania an engineer, was sent by his employer to America to develop a software program for the company.

Singhania, instead of working for the company, allegedly sold the source code of the programme to an American client of his employer person to which his employer suffered loss

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