Cyber Law in India (Law On Internet)-Prof. Farooq Ahmad Mir

Prof. Farooq Ahmad Mir’s Cyber Law in India (Law on Internet) is the substantial, scholarly treatment of Indian cyber law — the text LLM programmes and specialised electives reach for. The 2026 edition works through the Information Technology Act, 2000 in depth: electronic records and signatures, e-contracts and e-governance, the cyber-offence catalogue from hacking and identity theft to cyber terrorism, intermediary liability and safe-harbour after the 2021 Rules, and the adjudication and appellate machinery.

Beyond the Act, Mir engages the frontier questions — data protection under the DPDP Act, 2023, jurisdiction over borderless wrongs, e-evidence, and online speech — with comparative material that gives seminar papers real depth. For LLB electives, LLM specialisation, and anyone practising at the technology–law intersection.

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Cyber Law in India(Law On Internet) by Prof. Farooq Ahmad Mir is a law textbook published by Allahabad Law Agency.

Written with the needs of law students in mind, it explains the principles and provisions of the subject in a systematic and readable manner, making it a dependable companion for coursework and examination preparation.

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• Systematic, student-friendly treatment of the subject
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What’s Inside — Complete Chapter Map (14 Chapters + 17 Appendices)

Now in its Seventh Edition, and updated to the newest instruments — the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and its 2025 Rules, the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, the 2023 intermediary and digital-media amendments, and the electronic-evidence provisions of the new criminal laws.

Chapters 1–4 — Foundations: the development of the digital computer and the internet, how it functions and the modes of communication · the potential, problems, challenges and risks · the genesis, object and scope of the Information Technology Act, 2000 · Encryption — symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems, DES and Triple DES, data integrity, digital envelopes, digital cash, time stamping, the RSA algorithm and its mathematical basis, key length, elliptic-curve and the US digital signature standard.

Chapters 5–6 — Records, signatures and AI: authentication of electronic records, digital and electronic signatures, hash functions, digital watermarking, secure electronic records · Cryptocurrency — blockchain, mining, anonymity, legal validity and the new avenues for cyber crime · Electronic Governance — legal recognition of electronic records and signatures, retention, audit and the electronic Gazette · Artificial Intelligence and the Law — the EU AI Act and other legislation, the liability models (traditional criminal, absolute, programmer, attribution, product liability), trans-jurisdictional cases, and the intersection of generative AI with the law.

Chapters 7–8 — Regulator and privacy: the Controller and Certifying Authorities — types of certificates, licensing, and the Controller’s powers of investigation, search and seizure, access to computers and data, interception, monitoring and decryption with the full procedure, blocking of public access under Section 69A and its constitutional validity, traffic-data monitoring, internet access as a fundamental right, the doctrine of proportionality and restrictions on the internet · Privacy in Cyberspace — informational privacy and the balancing of interests, expert and data-protection committees, spyware and app-based privacy concerns, the GDPR in depth (scope, lawful processing, consent, rights of the data subject including erasure, controllers and processors, penalties), the UK, US and Australian regimes, then the Digital Personal Data Protection Act — notice and consent, obligations of Data Fiduciaries, children’s data, Significant Data Fiduciaries, rights and duties of the Data Principal, the Data Protection Board of India, appeals, penalties, and CERT-In.

Chapters 9–12 — Disputes and liability: Domain Name Disputes and Trademark Law — cybersquatting, reverse hijacking, metatags, keyword banners, hyperlinks, framing and spamming, liability of e-commerce platforms in the EU, US and India, jurisdiction, and both the UDRP and the .IN policy (INDRP) with decisions and Indian judicial trends · Service Provider’s Liability — obligations and due diligence of intermediaries, the safe-harbour clause, grievance officers and Grievance Appellate Committees, additional duties of significant social-media and online-gaming intermediaries, and the Code of Ethics for digital media with its three-level oversight · Electronic Commerce — formation and legal validity of electronic contracts, attribution, offer and acceptance and their communication and revocation, mistake, place of formation, jurisdiction and the liability of e-commerce websites · service-provider liability for copyright infringement, defamation and obscene content, with the Indian and comparative positions.

Chapters 13–14 — Adjudication and cybercrime: the Cyber Appellate Tribunal — composition, jurisdiction, the adjudicating officer’s powers, compensation for failure to protect data, procedure and appeal to the High Court · Cybercrimes — classification, unauthorised access, packet sniffing, password cracking, buffer overflow, viruses, worms, logic bombs and Trojans, denial-of-service attacks in their several forms, tampering with source documents, offensive messages and the free-speech jurisprudence, identity theft and cheating by personation, violation of privacy, hacking and the security measures against it, obscene publication and the test of obscenity, cyberstalking, cryptojacking and internet fraud · admissibility of electronic evidence under the new definitions, with every presumption listed · internet gambling, games of skill under Article 19(1)(g), and the Online Gaming Act, 2025 · then penalties, extra-territorial jurisdiction, investigation and offences by companies.

Seventeen appendices carry the statutes and rules in full — the IT Act 2000, the Certifying Authorities Rules and Regulations, the Cyber Appellate Tribunal rules, the Sensitive Personal Data Rules 2011, the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules 2021 with the 2023 Amendment, cyber cafe, electronic service delivery and digital locker rules, the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 and the Online Gaming Act, 2025.