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Cyber Crimes to be Penalised: An Overview of the Report by the Expert Committee
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. In 2005, the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which penalised the sending of offensive messages through computer resource or other communication services, thus leading to leniency with regard to laws governing penalisation for the delivering…