CASE STUDIES
India is a land of an ancient civilization which prospered more than 5000 years back. This land of heritage and tradition, when faced with the onset of Internet, has adjusted well to the newly emerging paradigms of Internet, World Wide Web as well as computers and computer networks.
There have been various cases that have been reported in India and which have a bearing upon the growth and revolution of Cyberlaw in India.
The present page encapsulates some of the important landmark cases that have impacted the evolution and growth of Cyberlaw jurisprudence in India
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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