(c) advance the objectives of organizations or individuals or groups proscribed under the law,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
fourteen years or with fine which may extend to fifty million rupees or with both.
11. Hate speech.—Whoever prepares or disseminates information, through any information
system or device, that advances or is likely to advance interfaith, sectarian or racial hatred, shall be
punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or with fine or with both.
12. Recruitment, funding and planning of terrorism.—Whoever prepares or disseminates
information, through any information system or device, that invites or motivates to fund, or recruits
people for terrorism or plans for terrorism shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to seven years or with fine or with both.
13. Electronic forgery.— (1) Whoever interferes with or uses any information system, device or
data, with the intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to make any illegal
claim or title or to cause any person to part with property or to enter into any express or implied
contract, or with intent to commit fraud by any input, alteration, deletion, or suppression of data,
resulting in unauthentic data with the intent that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if
it were authentic, regardless of the fact that the data is directly readable and intelligible or not, shall
be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or
with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty thousand rupees or with both.
(2) Whoever commits offence under subsection (1) in relation to a critical infrastructure
information system or data shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
seven years or with fine which may extend to five million rupees or with both.
14. Electronic fraud.—Whoever with the intent for wrongful gain interferes with or uses any
information system, device or data or induces any person to enter into a relationship or deceives any
person, which act or omission is likely to cause damage or harm to that person or any other person
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which
may extend to ten million rupees or with both.
15. Making, obtaining, or supplying device for use in offence. — Whoever produces, makes,
generates, adapts, exports, supplies, offers to supply or imports for use any information system, data
or device, with the intent to be used or believing that it is primarily to be used to commit or to assist in
the commission of an offence under this Act shall, without prejudice to any other liability that he may
incur in this behalf, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or
with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees or with both.
16. Unauthorized use of identity information.— (1) Whoever obtains, sells, possesses, transmits
or uses another person's identity information without authorization shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to five
million rupees, or with both.
(2) Any person whose identity information is obtained, sold, possessed, used or transmitted may
apply to the Authority for securing, destroying, blocking access or preventing transmission of identity
information referred to in sub section (1) and the Authority on receipt of such application may take
such measures as deemed appropriate for securing, destroying or preventing transmission of such
identity information.
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