https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287696 The Information Technology Act, 2000 was treated as a special code for computer-related offences, so alleged unauthorised access, copying, extraction, and transfer of data or source code fell within its framework. Because Section 81 gives the Act overriding effect, prosecution under the Indian Penal Code for the same factual allegations was considered unwarranted where the statutory ingredients overlapped. The Court also applied the protection against double jeopardy, holding that the same conduct could not be punished twice through parallel IPC and IT Act proceedings. The FIR was therefore quashed only to the extent it invoked the Indian Penal Code, while the Information Technology Act proceedings were left undisturbed. en-us Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:51:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287696 The Information Technology Act, 2000 was treated as a special code for computer-related offences, so alleged unauthorised access, copying, extraction, and transfer of data or source code fell within its framework. Because Section 81 gives the Act overriding effect, prosecution under the Indian Penal Code for the same factual allegations was considered unwarranted where the statutory ingredients overlapped. The Court also applied the protection against double jeopardy, holding that the same conduct could not be punished twice through parallel IPC and IT Act proceedings. The FIR was therefore quashed only to the extent it invoked the Indian Penal Code, while the Information Technology Act proceedings were left undisturbed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287696