Child
pornography in India needs to be seriously addressed says
Perry4Law,
the exclusive techno legal law firm of India. With growing
cases of cyber
stalking in India there is an urgent need to draft
stringent laws against child pornography in India. Nothing short of a
robust techno legal framework would work for India in these
circumstances opines Perry4Law.
Child pornography in India is becoming a big
nuisance despite stringent laws in this regard. The cyber law of
India prescribes stringent punishment for uploading and viewing child
pornography in India. An Advisory
by Home Ministry of India on Preventing and Combating Cyber Crime
against Children in India has also been issued.
However, despite all these efforts, child
pornography in India is increasing and protecting
children in cyberspace has become a daunting task.
Recently Interpol
helped India in tracking child porn surfers as tracing
such cyber criminals requires techno legal expertise at multiple
levels and various jurisdictions.
Law enforcement agencies and other involved in
fighting against child pornography and pedophiles
are working as undercover agents and by communicating with sexual
predators through online mediums. One such experiment was recently
conducted by a Dutch organisation for children’s rights
that identified more than 1,000 sexual predators after creating a
computer generated Filipino girl named “Sweetie” to entice them
into asking for child porn.
The Dutch chapter of the group Terre des Hommes (TDH) created the 10-year-old girl and then posed as her on Internet chat rooms to conduct a sting operation to unmask webcam child- sex tourists. They were quickly approached by more than 20,000 predators from 71 countries, and on Monday, they gave the identities of 1,000 of these alleged predators to Interpol. The top country of origin for the adults identified was the United States with 254, followed by Britain with 110 and India with 103.
However, not everybody can be identified and prosecuted so easily. Cyber criminals may be scattered in various parts of the world. These cyber criminals may also be using e-mail services of companies like Google whose Gmail does not provide the source of the communication.
Google is very fussy about providing information
about cyber criminals even if there are clear cases of doing so.
Although the Delhi High Court is presently hearing a case that would
scrutinise the e-mail
policy of India yet G-mail
should be banned in India not only for governmental
purposes but otherwise as well as G-mail abets and encourages
commission of cyber crimes and cyber contraventions in India.
Google
is openly violating the laws of India and Indian
government is taking Google lightly. We need to have
techno
legal framework in India so that companies like Google
cannot take Indian laws for a ride. We also need such techno legal
framework so that child pornography can be curbed to the maximum
possible extent in India.
Source: Cyber Laws In India.
