Four non-bailable offenses under Information Technology Act Ordinance

The Dhaka Times Desk Information technology legislation is a hot topic. An ordinance relating to this Act specifies four non-bailable offences. Let's find out what those crimes are...

Non-bailable offenses are: accessing a protected computer or website; publish false, obscene or defamatory information by electronic means; Various computer crimes and hacking of computers or websites.

Access to the reserved system:
Access to protected systems issued by regulatory, government or electronic notifications shall constitute a non-bailable offence. In this case, it is said that the controller and the police cannot simultaneously investigate this crime. For this reason Section 76(1) of the Act has been amended.

Publication of false, obscene or defamatory information by electronic means:
If any person knowingly publishes false or obscene material by electronic means which may incite immoral or ulterior motives, or cause or threaten to impair law and order, or defame the image of any person or hurt religious sentiments, or against any person or organization abetment but these shall be treated as non-bailable offences.

Various computer crimes:
It shall be a non-bailable offense to collect or destroy information contained in an electronic document without the permission of the concerned authority, or to access a computer or computer system or computer network for the purpose of collecting or destroying information or assisting any other person in doing so.

System Hacking:
Hacking is a crime if someone causes damage by illegally accessing a computer, server, network or other electronic system that is not under their control. This offense will be non-bailable.

This Ordinance also states that at any stage of the investigation of information technology related cases, the government can transfer the responsibility of conducting the investigation from the police officer to the controller or the authorized officer or from the controller to the police officer through the cyber tribunal order for the sake of fair investigation.