Careless and casual, Internet users don’t see abusive content as crime

While many people knowingly commit crime in cyberspace, there are many others who don’t realise that using the Internet to settle scores by sending abusive or obscene or misleading content is a crime for which they can be arrested. Data with the National Crime Records Bureau has revealed sexual harassment is the second biggest cyber crime in Maharashtra, after fraud. Of the 393 cyber crimes registered in the state in 2011, 96 pertained to fraud and 74 to harassment..........

People don’t realise that in the process of creating a fake profile or sending abusive/ obscene content through email ids created in someone else’s name, they are committing a crime under the Information Technology Act..............

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Jilted lover takes cyber revenge

Rejected by the girl he loved since his school days, a final year LLB student created her fake profile on Facebook and uploaded obscene pictures of an unknown woman on the website. Two months after the girl lodged a police complaint, the crime branch has finally managed to nab the youth.

The victim, daughter of an east Delhi businessman, and the accused, Shubham Kansal (22), had been classmates at school. After school, the two lost touch but Kansal rediscovered the girl on Facebook. He proposed a long-term relationship with the 21-year-old but she declined. Swearing vengeance, Kansal took months to plot his revenge. He created a fake Facebook profile in the girl's name and posted her personal information on it..........

Kansal disclosed that he devised the plan after watching a movie in February when all his efforts to re-establish contact with the girl failed...........

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