Section 4: Access with intent to commit offences
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Access with intent to commit offences
(1) Any person who causes a computer system to perform any function
for the purpose of securing access to any program or data held in any computer system with intent to commit an offence under any other enactment,
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 200,000 rupees and to penal servitude for a term not exceeding
20 years.
(2) For the purposes of this section, it is immaterial that—
(a) the access referred to in subsection (1) is authorised or
unauthorised;
(b) the further offence to which this section applies is committed at
the same time when the access is secured or at any other time.