Q.Choose the correct option: The Information Technology Act in India was enacted in the year —

The IT Act is India's central cyber law; identifying its year of enactment fixes the whole statutory timeline.

The Act received the President's assent in June 2000; the other years are distractors (1996 is the UNCITRAL Model Law; 2008 is the amendment; 2015 is when Section 66A was struck down).

Each option corresponds to a real date in the cyber-law timeline, so the trick is to match the correct one to the enactment of the Act itself.

• (a) 1996 — this is the year of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, on which India's Act is based, not the year of the Indian Act.
• (b) 2000 — correct. The Information Technology Act was passed and received the President's assent in 2000.
• (c) 2008 — this is the year of the IT (Amendment) Act, which strengthened the original Act, not its original enactment.
• (d) 2015 — this is the year the Supreme Court struck down Section 66A, not the year of enactment.

Confusing the year of the original Act (2000) with the year of the amendment (2008) is the most common error. Remember: enacted 2000, amended 2008.