4. Doing any act to secure unauthorised access in order to commit an offence

Any person who intentionally does any act, in order to secure for himself or for any other person, access to—

any computer ; or

any information held in any computer, knowing or having reason to believe that he has no lawful authority to secure such access and with the intention of committing an offence under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

there should be an intention to sccure any programme or data held in any computer ;

the access intended to be sccured, should be unauthorised;

it is not necessary to have access directed at any particular programme, data or computer.