Cybercrime in Nepal: Whether or not Nepalese legal standard address current and prospective modus operandi of cybercrime in Nepal?

Diploma Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, University of Oslo, course: LLM ICTL, language: English, abstract: Broadly, the thesis aims to resolve two research questions. Firstly, whether or not the legal regime of cybercrime in Nepal has been able to address current or prospective modus operandi of cyber related crime? And secondly, whether Nepalese legal regime related to cybercrime is in line with the standards set forth in Convention on Cybercrime, 2001 for addressing the cybercrime?. The dissertation is substantially based on secondary resources such as scholar’s article, books, and data from police, annual report of court and informal unstructured discussion with personnel from relevant authorities. Furthermore, the thesis has undertaken empirical study of cases and reports along with unstructured interview with relevant officials using random purposive sampling. After observation of secondary sources, unstructured interview, the paper has used primary sources such as treaties and laws to make a analytical study where the findings has been analyzed and conclusion has been drawn.