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From 1950 when IBM had a monopoly in India to 2007 India is continuously on the rise. The country has seen an era when after the IBM shuttled its shop in India in 1950, to 1991 when India developed its first powerful parallel computer till present.

India’s IT industry has grown up to US $ 5.7 billion (including over $4 billion worth of software exports) in 1999-2000, with the annual growth rate not sliding below 50 percent since 1991. It exports software and services to nearly 95 countries around the world. The share of North America (U.S. & Canada) in India’s software exports is about 61 per cent, but every coin has two sides.

As per the data available in ‘Crime in 2007′ report published by the NCRB, the number of cyber crimes registered under the IT Act in 2007 was 217, as against 142 in 2006, an increase of 52.8 per cent. 45.6% (99 cases) of the total 217 cases registered under IT Act 2000 were related to obscene publication / transmission in electronic form, normally known as cyber pornography.
According to NCRB various cyber crime cases registered under IPC section 339 during 2007 as compare to 311 cases during 2006

A total of 429 persons were arrested in the country for Cyber Crimes under IPC during 2007. According to ‘Crime 2007′, 63 per cent of the offenders were in the age group 18–30 years (97 out of 154) and 29.9 per cent of the offenders were in the age group 30–45 years (46 out of 154).

The contemporary IT act needs to be further restructured to a halt in the growing trends in cyber forensic.

There have been numerous cases in India, wherein crimes were commited and the criminals went unpunished. Why? Because the IT Act 2000 had many loop holes and the cyber criminals exploited the same. The police and the law enforcement could only watch the criminal executing the crime, but could do nothing. But this scenario promises to change soon.

Recently the Indian government decided to amend the Information Technology Act 2000 by incorporating new provisions. Now, the cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes  would be treated as evidence in the court of law. The main objective behind this amendment is to develop indigenous cyber forensics technology to make the country self-reliant in combating cyber crimes. The government is also stressing on the development of tools for cyber forensics, state-of-the-art training in cyber forensics and technical services like cyber crime analysis and cyber crime investigation.

These steps by the Indian government promises to combat cyber crime in India to a higher degree, than what it is now.