The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of the IPC.The vacation bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose was considering an SLP against the March order of the High Court of Punjab and.

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