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What is Cyber Stalking?

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    What is Cyber Stalking?

    By Nyaaya | Sexual Crimes, Violence and Abuse | 0 comment | 2 August, 2019 | 1

    If someone persistently monitors or follows a person’s activity on the internet through email, social networks and instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp etc. it is a crime of cyberstalking.1.

    Some of the common forms of cyber stalking are2:

    • Persistent contact by someone on different modes of social media, for example, WhatsApp and Facebook.
    • Using social media to get all personal information and pictures of someone to use it against them.
    • Sending emails containing obscene images and videos, displaying nude or morphed pictures along with threats and abuses.
    • Posting obscene/nude pictures of someone on the internet or on a pornographic website.
    • Monitoring a person’s activity by accessing a computer’s webcam or a computer device.

    The punishment for online stalking is jail time up to three years along with a fine. For repeat offenders, the punishment is higher, i.e. up to five years jail time along with a fine.

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    1. Section 354D, Indian Penal Code, 1860; The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013[↩]
    2. Kalandi Charan Lenka v State of Orissa BLAPL No.7596 of 2016.[↩]
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