Cyber Crimes & Data Theft

Cyber crimes are prosecuted under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (a special statute, unaffected by the new criminal codes) read with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 for the underlying cheating, forgery or intimidation. Key IT Act provisions include Section 43 (damage to computer systems with civil liability), Section 66 (computer-related offences), Section 66C (identity theft), Section 66D (cheating by personation using a computer resource), Section 66F (cyber terrorism) and Section 67 (publishing obscene / sexually explicit material). The decisive evidentiary issue in almost every cyber case is the admissibility of electronic records, which now requires a certificate under Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (the successor to the well-known electronic-records certificate). Evidence preservation — screenshots, server logs, hash values and metadata — must be done correctly at the outset. Incident reporting to CERT-In and compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 add a regulatory layer for organisations. We represent victims of online fraud, identity theft, romance scams and non-consensual imagery, and corporates facing data-breach allegations — combining technical evidence preservation with effective prosecution and defence.