The Information Technology Act, 2000
Whoever dishonestly received or retains any stolen computer resource or communication device knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen computer resource or communication device, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to rupees one lakh or with both.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Information Technology Act, 2000, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1999/1/A2000-21 (1).pdf, 462,882 bytes, sha256 45fb45419e5da89a...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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