The Information Technology Act, 2000 · Ch. XIII — MISCELLANEOUS
No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Central Government, the State Government, the Controller or any person acting on behalf of him, [and adjudicating officers] for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder.
Sections of the ITA are not classified one by one by any First Schedule. Part II of the First Schedule to the BNSS classifies offences under every other law by the punishment they carry — and the CRPC’s First Schedule sets out the same three bands.
If punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for more than 7 years.
If punishable with imprisonment for 3 years and upwards but not more than 7 years.
If punishable with imprisonment for less than 3 years or with fine only.
Read it against the punishment in the section above. Vidhara does not place a section in a band for you — that turns on the exact wording of its punishment, which is the section’s to say and not ours.
And a special or local law may provide otherwise: see BNSS section 5, which saves any special jurisdiction, power or procedure another law lays down.
Source & version
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. Division headings re-derived 2026-08-24 from a fresh fetch of the same Act: indiacode.gov.in bitstream 61831783-4cf1-499b-9c2c-0b78f5fee4e9 (a2000-21.pdf), 577,085 bytes, sha256 a9d21457e9bef41a…, via the migrated India Code (the .nic.in handle above no longer resolves; the repository reports the bitstream as 462,882 bytes and serves a larger, stamped rendering). SECTION TEXT IS UNCHANGED and still comes from the 2026-08-03 parse: this rendering carries an “IndiaCode” page stamp and leaks footnote text into 19 bodies, so it is a better witness for headings and a worse one for text. Chapter V reads “RECORDS ANS SECURE” in the body heading (p.12) and “RECORDS AND SECURE” in the Arrangement of Sections (p.1); the body printing is kept pending a decision. Chapter V's heading takes the Arrangement of Sections reading (p.1, “RECORDS AND SECURE”) over the body heading (p.12, “RECORDS ANS SECURE”): both are this PDF, they disagree, and ANS is not a word. Reviewed correction, D-078 — see scripts/ingest/src/repairs/repair-heading-typos.mjs.
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