Now a day’s most of the activities and financial transactions uses internet, since internet is accessible from anywhere, perpetrator takes advantage of this and commit a crime. Cybercrime is a term used to broadly describe criminal activity in which computers or computer networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity and include everything from electronic cracking to denial of service attacks. It is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the illicit activity. Cyber criminals take full advantage of the anonymity, secrecy, and interconnections provided by the Internet. In this paper we have tried to provide information about Cyber crime, its nature, Perpetrators, Classification of cyber crime, Reasons for its emergence, In next section of this paper we have given an information about cyber law, IT legislation in India. Further in next section we have discuses about Cyber crime scenario in India. Finally Last two sections of this paper discuss about some cyber crime cases in India and some cyber crimes and punishments related with those crime.
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                    Significance of  Information Technology and Cyber Laws in India
                
                                    
                
                
                    Published:
03 June 2020
by MDPI
in MOL2NET'20, Conference on Molecular, Biomed., Comput. & Network Science and Engineering, 6th ed.
congress TECHLAWSCI-04: PANELFIT & NKL H2020 Tech. Law. & Sci. Challenges, Bilbao, Spain, Halden, Norway, Baltimore, USA, 2020
                
                                    
                        https://doi.org/10.3390/mol2net-06-06853
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                        Keywords: Cybercrime; Cyber laws; Indian Cyber Crime Cases; I.T. legislation in India