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ICT ACT 2006 Bangladesh - Law



Section 54:Penalty for damage to computer or computer system

Offenses:

  1. Unauthorized access to system

  2. Unauthorized download or upload

  3. Spam email

  4. Denial Of Service

  5. Helps others to do harm

  6. data tampering

Punishment : Up to 10 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 10 lakhs taka or both.


Section 55: Punishment for altering with computer source code.

Offenses:

  1. Data altering

  2. Data deleting

  3. Data updating

  4. Data mismatch

Punishment: Up to 3 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 3 lakhs taka or both.


Section 56: Punishment for hacking with computer system.

Offenses:

  1. Unauthorized or illegal access to protected system.

Punishment: Up to 10 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 1 crore taka or both.


Section 57: Punishment for publishing obscuring or obscene information in the internet and which may lead to defamation to

  1. An individual

  2. Against a nation

  3. Against the law

  4. Against the society.

Punshiment: Up to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine that may extend to 1 crore taka.


Section 61: Punishment for unauthorized access to protected system

Any person who intensionally or knowingly access any system which is not authorized by him/her will be considered as a offense under this section.

Punishment: Up to 10 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 10 lakhs taka or both.


Section 62: Punishment for misrepresentation of data.

Any person who tries to change the actual information against a person or an organization will be considered as offense under this section.

Punishment: Up to 2 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 2 lakhs taka or both.


Section 63: Punishment for disclosure of sensitive information.

Sensitive data needs to be always protected. Like the annual report of an organization needs to disclose between the employees of that company.If any person of that company disclose the information then he or she will be considered as doing offense under this section.

Punishment: Up to 2 years of imprisonment or a fine that may extend to 10 lakhs taka or both.


Section 66:Punishment for using computer to do offenses.

This section gather all the possible offenses that can be happened in cyber space by means of computer and the punishment will be given by means of the respective offenses.

Section 67:Offenses against companies.

This section also does not include the actual punishment.This section defines about if any company do any offenses against an individual or an organisation then the
  1. employees

  2. partner

  3. staffs

  4. owner

  5. director

will be punished under this section.


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