SOP CYBERCRIME

(Uploading of Unauthorized Videos / Images on Social Media)

1. General

1. The Cadets are allowed to use mobile phones other than Android inside campus, for contacting their parents, over weekends only.
2. Cadets are strictly forbidden to use Android mobiles. Anyone found with a mobile phone outside the prescribed time, days, and duration will have their mobile confiscated, fined, punished as per SOP, and the device may be broken.
3. Cadets are allowed to use the internet for educational research, assembly presentations, and video lectures in the computer lab and library under supervision of Computer Incharge, Library Officer, and Lab Assistants, where they are closely monitored.
4. The College administration strictly prohibits the use of social media for the following purposes:
   1. Uploading college videos, sharing personal or funny videos, harassment, or sharing videos of college activities especially in college dress.
   2. Creating and sharing inappropriate content (e.g., explicit images, hate speech, or defamatory content).
   3. Sharing copyrighted or confidential material without permission.
   4. Using social media during restricted times (e.g., during classes, prep periods).
   5. Creating fake accounts or impersonating others.
   6. Sharing college internal information or confidential matters.
   7. Engaging in online activities that violate college rules and regulations.

2. Penalties / Punishments for Violating SOPs

1. Besides fines and punishments as per law in appropriate cases, violator cadets will be immediately expelled from the College.
2. A suit for damages will be instituted against violators in appropriate cases in a civil court.
3. Parents will also be prosecuted in cases where negligence, carelessness, or willful intention/support is found in unlawful acts committed by their children.
4. Wrongdoers may be prosecuted in court under section 200 CrPC for breach of these SOPs.
5. In case of expulsion, the administration may claim total dues from the parents without leniency.
6. Suit for defamation may be filed against wrongdoers, leading to physical and financial penalties as per law.
7. Failure to pay damages may lead to confiscation of property/assets by the court.
8. Whoever willfully creates any fake ID on social media or impersonates another person will be punished under section 419 PPC with up to seven years imprisonment, fine, or both.
9. Whoever makes or publishes any imputation by word, sign, or visible representation shall be punished for defamation under section 500 PPC with imprisonment up to five years, fine, or both.
   Note: The accused can also face a civil damages suit along with the punishment mentioned.
10. Any person who attempts unauthorized acts to alter, modify, remove, delete, generate, transmit or store information shall be guilty under section 37 of the Electronic Transaction Ordinance 2002 and punished up to seven years imprisonment, fine, or both.
    Note: Creating, editing, deleting, hacking, modifying, or altering Facebook accounts, email addresses, personal pictures, WhatsApp IDs, Twitter, Instagram etc. fall under sections 36 & 37 of ETO-2002.