https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200837 Criminal breach of trust and cheating require entrustment of property and dishonest inducement to deliver property; on the allegations stated, those elements were absent, so the IPC prosecution under Sections 409, 420 and 120B was quashed. Allegations that ESN values in mobile handsets were altered were treated as prima facie capable of attracting Section 65 of the Information Technology Act because a handset and its programmed identifiers could amount to computer source code, and that issue was left for trial. Alteration of a protected computer programme was also treated as a triable question under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, so those proceedings were permitted to continue. en-us Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:56:57 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200837 Criminal breach of trust and cheating require entrustment of property and dishonest inducement to deliver property; on the allegations stated, those elements were absent, so the IPC prosecution under Sections 409, 420 and 120B was quashed. Allegations that ESN values in mobile handsets were altered were treated as prima facie capable of attracting Section 65 of the Information Technology Act because a handset and its programmed identifiers could amount to computer source code, and that issue was left for trial. Alteration of a protected computer programme was also treated as a triable question under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, so those proceedings were permitted to continue. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200837