Thiruvananthapuram Netizens beware. Forwarding an email without checking the facts about it may land you in trouble. As per the new provisions in the Information Technology Act, you may be courting two years in jail and a fine of up to Rs1 million if you are found responsible for forwarding offensive emails.
As per the amendments which were notified last month, sending an offensive content by means of a computer or a communication device will attract provisions which are punishable.
Similarly, sending false information with the intention of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill-will would face imprisonment of up to three years and fine.
Any mail send for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages would attract imprisonment. Receiving a stolen computer or communication device with the knowledge that it is stolen will attract imprisonment of up to three years and fine of up to Rs100,000.
Under Section 66(C), fraudulent use of the electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person, will face imprisonment of up to three years and fine of up to Rs100,000.
Cheating by impersonation using computer would attract three years’ imprisonment and fine of up to Rs100,000. Under Section 67, transmission of materials with sexually explicit contents, including those pertaining to children, through computer would attract imprisonment of five years and fine of Rs1 million in case of first conviction.
Origin of Pinarayi email traced
The Cyber Cell has unearthed the origin of the hate mail against CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan. A youth from Pathanamthitta working in Qatar had created the email and had sent it to several people, police said.
Anil Nair
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