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Rohit, an employee of a Pune firm, uses a colleague's login credentials without permission and downloads confidential client files from the company server. Under the Information Technology Act, 2000, which offence does this conduct most directly attract?

Using a colleague's credentials without permission to download confidential files is unauthorised access and data theft. This is a computer-related offence under the IT Act, 2000, attracting compensation liability and criminal punishment if done dishonestly or fraudulently. The other options involve unrelated conduct.

  1. AUnauthorised access to a computer system and data download, punishable under the IT Act's computer-related offencesCorrect
  2. BCyber terrorism involving threat to national sovereignty
  3. CPublishing obscene material in electronic form
  4. DFailure to maintain records by an intermediary

Explanation

Accessing a computer or downloading data without the owner's permission is the core computer-related wrong under Sections 43 and 66 of the IT Act (civil compensation and criminal liability when done dishonestly or fraudulently). The other options concern different acts: terrorism, obscenity, and intermediary record-keeping, none of which are described in the facts.

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