Cyber Crime

Web-site Providing Link to Sites containing Pornographic material

Information
E-Mail
message received on Delhi Police web-site from Mainhoon Don providing information that www.indiatimes.com has pornographic material

Mainhoon

Don traced from IP Address of the header and statement u/s 161 Cr.P.C. recorded

www.indiatimes.com connected on internet

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Case Registered u/s 292 IPC

Contents of the site down-loaded
2 sets of floppies prepared and deposited in Malkhana Print-out taken and got signed from the witnesses

On enquiry, www.indiatimes.com was found to be

owned by Times Group They took the plea that there site is a search engine Visitor to the site can search for any type of site On being told about links fault admitted search for defaulter responsible for negligence started
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Cyber Stalking

Mrs.

Ritu Kohli was getting obnoxious telephone calls during night time Callers told that they have been invited to call on telephone at night on the chatting site www.mirc.com by Ritu On receipt of complaint trap was laid and Mrs. Ritu Kohli was asked to chat on the site with male identity Someone with the name of Ritu was already on the chatting site
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Contd.

Mrs.

Ritu Kohli started chatting with the person identifying as Ritu During online chatting IP Address traced On enquiry from VSNL, the IP Address was found allocated to User ID manika@del3 and found connected with telephone number 7084104 According to VSNL record, manika@del3 was found allotted to Mr. Manish Kathuria r/o TU-2, Pritam Pura, Delhi
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Contd.

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to MTNL record phone number 7084104found allotted to Mr. Manish Kathuria r/o TU-2, Pritam Pura, Delhi On questioning Manish Kathuria, confessed immediately Manish Kathuria was earlier working with M/s CRISIL, where husband of Mrs. Ritu Kohli is working . Manish Kathuria had some old grudge with Mrs. Ritu Kohlis husband 11

Internet Time Theft Case

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Col.

Bajwa reported the theft of internet time of about 107 hrs. purchased from VSNL on Nov. 4th, 1999 Col. Bajwa called Engineer Mukesh Gupta to install internet connection on Nov. 4th, 1999 Thereafter hard disk of his computer crashed The replacement of hard disk took about two months After that on checking, he found his internet time account exhausted
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Contd.

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his complaint, case u/s 379 IPC read with 25 Indian Telegraph Act registered and investigation taken up Log details with telephone numbers for the internet connection of Col. Bajwa collected Scrutiny reveals 10 telephone numbers using internet account Ownership details and address of installation collected from MTNL/Gurgaon telephone authority
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Parijat Agencies (P) Ltd. - 6223714, 6497758 (Mr.

Vikram Anand)

Parijat

Agencies has AMC with Nicon Systems where Mukesh Gupta was employed as engineer. Mukesh Gupta used to go to maintain the computers at this agency and Mukesh Gupta had used complainants password from that premises

Victor Appliances - 7224995

Mr.
Vicky Malhotra has got the password of the complainant on chat site from Mr. Mukesh Gupta

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Contd.

Harshwardhan Batra - 5753872

Yogesh
Batra s/o Harshwardhan Batra told that one engineer Shashi Bhushan Nagpal came to repair his computer at his residence through his friend & colleague Krishan Kumar and Shashi Bhushan Nagpal showed him internet sites by using password of the complainant

Nishidh
He

Gaind - M/s National Paints & Chem. Institute - 5715843

also got his computer repaired from Shashi Nagpal who showed him internet sites by using password of the complainant

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Contd.

Sanjeev

Saran - Managing Director High Point Expedition and Tours - 6144958

Accused

Krishan Kumar s/o Bhagat Singh was employed with this company and has used complainants password from his office is residing in Gurgaon in the neighborhood of accused Shashi Bhushan Nagpal and both used to work together in Dec.99 Shashi Nagpal installed computer at his residence and showed him different internet sites using complaints password

Anil Kumar Yadav - 324099 (Gurgaon)

He

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 Bhagat Singh - 324818 (Gurgaon)

Enquiries revealed that accused Shashi Bhushan Nagpal

installed computer at the residence of Krishan Kumar s/o Bhagat Singh and gave password of the complainant for free use. Krishan Kumar used this password to the tune of 78 hrs. from this telephone

Dr.

Sanjeev Garg - 3366676

He He

was employed in RML Hospital and was living in Doctors Hostel. He has left the job and gone to London is also one the user of complainants password through this telephone number

Dr. Alok K. Bose - 6151930

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3 Accused Arrested

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As per Jagan Singh Vs. B.S. Ramaswamy, the

Supreme Court of India has held as under (AIR 1966 SC 849: Cr.L.J. 697) and reiterated in 1966 Cri. L.J. 697 ( Vol. 72, C.N. 210) K.N. Suba Rao, J.R. Mudholkar and R.S. Bachawat, JJ

Whoever

dishonestly abstracts, consumes or uses any energy shall be deemed to have committed theft within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.

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Extract of judgement in the court of Shri C.K. Chaturvedi, ASJ

.At one time.
It was said that time is money but by the use of information technology now time is more than money. It is opportunity, power, resource and much more depending on the needs of the user. .In the cyber world, password is a key and therefore is a valuable property, though intangible, through which the information is made accessible and computer time on internet is used by the consumers. The purpose behind giving the password to each consumer is with a view to protect his property which is unlike other physical properties which are guarded physically.
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