Cheating by personation using computer resources
Addresses specified online or electronic impersonation fraud.
Official law source ↗Cyber · LEGAL ISSUE GUIDE
Cyber Fraud / Digital Arrest Scam
साइबर ठगी
Search online impersonation, OTP scams, fake police calls and computer-related fraud.
Understanding this legal issue
Search online impersonation, OTP scams, fake police calls and computer-related fraud.
There is no lawful concept of detention over a video call by a person demanding an immediate payment. Preserve evidence and report urgent financial cybercrime through official channels; the relevant charges depend on proof.
Key question: Did the person impersonate an official, obtain credentials or demand payment?
SELECTED PROVISIONS · NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST
Core offences
Identity theft
Criminalises specified dishonest or fraudulent use of another person’s digital identifiers.
Official law source ↗Computer-related offences
Criminal provision for specified dishonest/fraudulent computer-related acts.
Official law source ↗Related offences
Cheating
Addresses cheating; more serious variants are in the relevant subsections.
Earlier-law reference: IPC 415 / 417 / 420 (subsection-dependent) · orientation only
Official law source ↗Cheating by personation
Addresses cheating by impersonating another person.
Earlier-law reference: IPC 416 / 419 · orientation only
Official law source ↗Criminal intimidation
Addresses threats constituting criminal intimidation and its forms.
Earlier-law reference: IPC 503 / 506 · orientation only
Official law source ↗Penalty and compensation for damage to computer or computer system
Civil compensation framework for specified unauthorised computer-related acts.
Official law source ↗Evidence & procedure
Electronic or digital record
Concerns legal effect of electronic or digital records under the BSA.
Official law source ↗Admissibility of electronic records
Sets conditions relevant to electronic records and the statutory certificate framework.
Official law source ↗Information in cognizable cases
Provision concerning giving and recording information about cognizable offences.
Earlier-law reference: CrPC 154 · orientation only
Official law source ↗Before relying on these references: Read the full official law, check sub-sections, schedules, exemptions, dates, special Acts, transition rules and current judicial interpretation. Mentioning a section here does not mean it applies to every fact pattern.