preliminary lecture on ipc- criminal law definition etc.
The old Roman law says that, without law there is no crime. The legislature,
while defining crime takes into consideration various factors viz. social and
sociological factors, economic factors, political conditions and other things as it
thinks fit.
Crime is a public wrong. Public wrong in the sense it causes injury to the public
or community as a whole and any member of the public can move the court, it
causes threat to social security and creates social disorder. It is a wrong pursued
by the sovereign or its subordinate i.e. Police, Judicial Officials etc. for
example Murder, Rape, Theft, Forgery etc. New crimes in new era :- Use of computer network has given rise to cyber-crimes and other computer
related unlawful activities of twenty-first century's hi-tech world. Cyber-crimes
are harmful acts committed for or against a computer or against information on
computer network. These crimes differ from most terrestrial crimes in four
ways:
(1) It is easy to learn how to commit them, (2) they hardly require any resources. (3) they can be committed in a jurisdiction without being physically
present in it, and (4) they are often not clearly illegal. Some criminals operate around the computer network, undeterred by the prospect of arrest or
prosecution, and therefore are a menace to e-mail or e-commerce users. Frauds,
hackers, viruses, pornography, harassment, stalking, data-diddling etc are these
cyber-crimes cover a wide range of illegal activities. These offences are needed
to recognise the fact that criminal law must continue to address itself
adequately to new developments in information technology. Because of the