Ranjan, Radha and Gulati, Jivantika creator text Kashmir Journal of Legal Studies monographic eng

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10(1), Jul, 2023: p.79-90 India in the last two decades has seen a magnificent technological growth especially after the advent of the Internet. There is higher dependency of the people towards the cyber world for completion of day-to-day tasks. However, every aspect has its negative side as well, which is the sexual cybercrime particularly referring to the women. In the era of cyber socialisation, there are plethora of sexual cybercrimes committed against women i.e., cyberstalking, revenge porn, cyber defamation, morphing, etc. The cyber criminals adopt new modes and mechanisms to attack the victims as computers and laptops have become an essence of an individual’s life thereby making women an easy target. However, to prevent this, the role of the Information Technology Act, 2000 comes into play. But the question arises, till what extent this law is sufficient to curb the menace of sexual crimes against women in the cyberspace. There are various reasons of growth of such crimes such as fear of reputation and hesitation to report the incident (sociological reason), lacunas within the IT Act,2000, non-implementation of laws (legal reason), improper technology to track the cybercriminals due to her anonymity (technical reason). The researchers also seek to analyse the technological and legal gap to protect the rights of women. It is an emerging area of criminality which needs to be addressed, analysed, and solved.- Reproduced http://kashmirjournaloflegalstudies.edu.in//Files/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/Journal/d51c4f88-b481-4e09-8ecf-05057a46ed5d.pdf Sexual harassment , Women , Cyber space Kashmir Journal of Legal Studies 240115