Niharika Sharma, Assistant Professor at NRI Group of Institution, Department of Law, Bhopal
ABSTRACT
With the fast-growing reach of the internet, speedy spread of mobile information and the escalated use of social media, our lives being inextricably mixed with online media has purported the emergence of crimes committed in cyberspace. The term cybercrime is an unlawful action against any person using a computer, its system and its application. Though crime against women is on a rise in all fields being a victim of cybercrime could be most traumatic experience for a woman. In India where the society look down upon the women and law doesn’t even recognize the cybercrime. The topic of my research paper is “CYBER CRIME AGAINST THE WOMEN IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW” under the theme of “Cyber Law”. The main aim of the researcher is to discuss upon the various types of cybercrimes that can be inflicted upon a women and how they adversely affect women and briefly examine upon the various law that exist to protect the women in such cases, to suggest several remedies to counter the ever increasing cybercrimes against women in India. At our conclusion we will focus upon the options available to the victims to cybercrime and the changes required in legal system to effectively curb the rising spirits of cyber criminals.
Keyword: Cybercrime, Crime against women, India, Women, legal system.
