What provisions have been made regarding compensation and penalty for damages to computer, and computer system under the information technology act?

What provisions have been made regarding compensation and penalty for damages to computers, and computer systems under the information technology act?

What provisions have been made regarding compensation and penalty for damages to computer, and computer system under the information technology act?

Penalty and compensation] for damage to computer, computer system, etc. -If any person without permission of the owner or any other person who is in charge of a computer, computer system or computer network,-

 

(a) accesses or secures access to such computer, computer system or computer network [or computer resource];

(b) downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium;

(c) introduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into any computer, computer system or computer network;

(d) damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmers residing in such computer, computer system or computer network;

(e) disrupts or causes disruption of any computer, computer system or computer network;

(f) denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorized to access any computer, computer system or computer network by any means;

(g) provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made there under;

(h) charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network,

 

He shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected.