The Centre is contemplating
a comprehensive legislation to deal effectively with cyber crimes.
In this connection, the Ministry of Law and Justice has taken
preliminary steps to evolve a law against cyber crimes.
Necessary consultations
with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
Home Affairs, Defence and Finance are afoot to evolve such a law,
which is most needed as absence of such a law poses a threat to
the country’s defence, security, economics and other such vital
fields of national importance.
Before the Government
moves faster in the field of information technology and applying
the same to all fields, the Government will like to put in place
a comprehensive law to tackle cyber crimes.
Under the Information
Technology Act, 2000 and the rules framed thereunder, punishments
have been provided for various cyber crimes within the frame of
the existing criminal laws. But in view of the cyber crimes taking
very sophisticated and menacing forms, a separate comprehensive
law to provide deterrence has been suggested.
