The Act is used as amended by the Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008, which inserted the provisions this paper turns on — compensation for failure to protect data, the cyber offences, the power to block, and the intermediary safe harbour. Section 66A is printed in the Act but was struck down by the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India on 24 March 2015; the chapters say so wherever it arises, because an answer that states it as live law is wrong.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 1(2)
s. 4
s. 7
s. 10A
s. 13
s. 13(3)
s. 13(4)
s. 13(5)
s. 66A
s. 67
s. 67A
s. 67B
s. 67C
s. 75(2)
s. 77
s. 79
s. 79(3)(b)
s. 85
s. 292
s. 294
s. 469
s. 509
Cases on this Act
- Bhagwandas Goverdhandas Kedia v. M/s Girdharilal Parshottamdas & Co. (1965)
- Trimex International FZE Ltd. Dubai v. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (2010)
- Entores — the English rule on instantaneous communication
- State of Tamil Nadu v. Suhas Katti (2004)
- Avnish Bajaj v. State
- P.R. Transport Agency v. Union of India
- SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. v. Jogesh Kwatra