Question 4 OR (b)
Cyber contraventions, cyber offences and computer related offences
7 marks
- Time to write
- About 14 minutes
From an older CBCS paper
Question
Question 4 OR (b) · 7 marksHow do cyber contraventions differ from cyber offences? Explain what computer related offences mean.
Reworded from the university paper; the task is the same. The original paper belongs to the University of Delhi. See DU's question bank.
Before you write
Read off the question and its marks
Read from the question
- How…?Explain…Two asks in one question: answer both.
- differSet the differences out in a table, basis by basis, not as two separate essays.
What the paper leaves open
The only copy of this paper found is cut off at the right edge of the page; the few words lost there are read from the sense and from the Hindi version of the question. The mark for this part is not legible on the copy; it is reckoned here at 7 marks, the paper's own split for its other questions. This older-course question examines the Information Technology Act, 2000, which the current UGCF Business Laws syllabus does not name; it is answered as printed.
Write it in this order
- Read; underline the asks; jot your points 1 min
- 1 Cyber contraventions (section 43) 2½ marks 4 min
- 2 Cyber offences Chapter XI; section 65 2 marks 4 min
- 3 Computer related offences (section 66) and the difference 2½ marks 4 min
- Check: every ask answered, key terms underlined 1 min
Short on time? Trim steps 1–3 evenly rather than skip one: each is capped at its own marks.
Try it first. About 14 minutes for 7 marks. Write it out, then open the solution.
Solution
Hover or tap a marked figure, like 72,000, to see how it is made and where else it appears.
Cyber contraventions (Chapter IX, section 43). A person who, without the owner's permission, among other acts, downloads, copies or extracts data from a computer, computer system or network, introduces a computer contaminant or virus, damages or disrupts a computer or network, denies access to an authorised person, charges services to another's account by tampering, destroys or alters information in a computer resource, or steals or alters computer source code with intent to cause damage, is “liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected”.
Cyber offences (Chapter XI). These are crimes punishable with imprisonment or fine: for example, tampering with computer source documents required to be kept by law is punishable with imprisonment up to three years or fine up to two lakh rupees or both (section 65). A penalty or compensation for a contravention, by contrast, is recovered as an arrear of land revenue if unpaid.
Computer related offences (section 66). “If any person, dishonestly or fraudulently, does any act referred to in section 43, he” is punishable with imprisonment up to three years or fine up to five lakh rupees or both.
The difference. The same act under section 43 is a civil contravention calling for compensation; done dishonestly or fraudulently, it is a computer related offence punishable under section 66.
Where the 7 marks sit
| # | Component | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cyber contraventions (section 43) | 2.5 |
| 2 | Cyber offences (Chapter XI; section 65) | 2 |
| 3 | Computer related offences (section 66) and the difference | 2.5 |
| Total | 7 |
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