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Failure to comply with the agencies will result in seven years jail and a fine.
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an order granting ten central intelligence and security agencies access to information stored, recieved or transmitted in computers.
The notice, issued on Thursday, says the agencies can intercept, monitor and decrypt “any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer.”
These ten agencies are:
Intelligence Bureau
Narcotics Control Bureau
Enforcement Directorate
Central Board of Direct Taxes
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
Central Bureau of Investigation
National Investigation Agency
Cabinet Secretariat(RAW)
Directorate of Signal Intelligence(For service areas of Jammu & Kashmir, North-East and Assam only)
Commissioner of Police, Delhi
The order, issued under Section 69(1) of the Information Technology Act, was signed by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 69 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) read with rule 4 of the Information Technology ( Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules, 2009, the Competent Authority hereby authorises Security and Intelligence Agencies for the purposes of interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource under the said Act,” read the notice.