Cyber Terrorism

(iii) Cyber Terrorism (section 66F). A person commits cyber terrorism who, “with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or to strike terror in the people”, denies authorised access to a computer resource, attempts to penetrate or access one without authorisation or beyond authorised access, or introduces a computer contaminant, causing or likely to cause death, injury, damage to property or disruption of supplies or services essential to the life of the community, or adversely affects the critical information infrastructure specified under section 70; or who knowingly or intentionally penetrates or accesses a computer resource without authorisation, or exceeding authorised access, and by that conduct obtains information that is restricted for reasons of the security of the State or foreign relations, or other restricted information with reason to believe that it may be used “to cause injury to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence, or to the advantage of any foreign nation” (s. 66F(1)(B)). Whoever commits or conspires to commit it is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to imprisonment for life (section 66F(2)).