Penalty for unauthorized access

Under the provisions of this Act, whoever, not being authorised by the Authority, intentionally,-

1. (a) accesses or secures access to the Unified Family Data Repository;
2. (b) downloads, copies or extracts any data from the Unified Family Data Repository or stored in any removable storage medium;
3. (c) introduces or causes to be introduced any virus or other computer contaminant in the Unified Family Data Repository;
4. (d) damages or causes to be damaged the data in Unified Family Data Repository;
5. (e) disrupts or causes disruption of access to Unified Family Data Repository;
6. (f) denies or causes a denial of access to any person who is authorised to access the Unified Family Data Repository;
7. (g) reveals any information in contravention of sub-section (5) of section 8, or shares, uses or displays information in contravention of sub-section (7) of section 8 or assists any person in any of the aforementioned acts;
8. (h) destroys, deletes or alters any information stored in any removable storage medium or in the Unified Family Data Repository or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means; or
   • (i) steals, conceals, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal, conceal, destroy or alter any computer source code used by the Authority with an intention to cause damage, Shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to a fine which shall not be less than fifty lakh rupees. Explanation - For the purposes of this sub-section, the expressions “computer contaminant”, “computer virus”, “computer source code” and “damage” shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Explanation to section 43 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Act 21 of 2000).