CYBERCRIMES AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA
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With the introduction of internet, the lifestyle of people has become very convenient as there is not much effort required so as to make a search or to place an order or to share news to public at large. Today it is quite possible for an individual to spread a word with a click of button on computer. People have become a slave of such invention as they blindly trust the information so being provided without checking for its authenticity. Hence, it has become a platform for some to use it for all the wrong purposes. With an increase in the crime rate committed online at the cyberspace, a need was felt for a legislation to regulate such crimes. For the first time, a Model Law on E-commerce was adopted in 1996 by United Nations Commission on International Trade and Law (UNCITRAL). It was further adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations by passing a resolution on 31st January, 1997. Further, India was also a signatory to this Model Law and had to revise its national laws as per the said model law.
Therefore, India enacted the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Mid 90’s saw an impetus in globalization and computerisation, with more and more nations computerizing their governance, and e-commerce seeing an enormous growth. Until then, most of international trade and transactions were done through documents being transmitted through post and by telex only. Evidences and records, until then, were predominantly paper evidences and paper records or other forms of hard-copies only. With much of international trade being done through electronic communication and with email gaining momentum, an urgent and imminent need was felt for recognizing electronic records i.e. the data what is stored in a computer or an external storage attached thereto.
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