Explain computer related offences and related penalties as specified in IT Act.

Computer related offences have been defined in section 43 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 which provides that If any person without permission of the owner or any other person who is in-charge of a computer, computer system or computer network,— (a) Accesses or secures access to such computer, computer system or computer network or computer resource; (b) Downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium; (c) Introduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into any computer, computer system or computer network; (d) Damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmes residing in such computer, computer system or computer network; (e) Disrupts or causes disruption of any computer, computer system or computer network; (f) Denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorized to access any computer, computer system or computer network by any means; (g) Provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made there- under; (h) Charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network, (i) Destroys, deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means; (j) Steal, conceals, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal, conceal, destroy or any other computer source code used for a computer resource with an intention to cause damage; He would be liable to pay compensation to the party so affected and shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to life imprisonment or with fine which may extend to one crore or both.