Surfing Child Porn May Land You in Jail

For five years with a Rs. 10 lakh fine


After the amended Information Technology Act made it illegal to publish and transmit obscene material or any sexually explicit act/content last month, a newly passed IT Bill is set to punish offenses revolving around child pornography.


So what exactly has been touted as an offense? The new bill is set to make it illegal to not only create and transmit child pornography in any electronic form, but even to browse it, as reported by The Times of India. Publishing and transmitting material depicting children in a "obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner" can put you behind bars for a long duration - five years, not to mention the hefty Rs. 10 lakh fine it attracts.

Section 67 of the existing act will now be amended. Section 67B proposes particularly to punish acts of publishing and transmitting any electronic sexually explicit act/content that depicts children as opposed to Section 67, which does not specifically mention children anywhere. Now, it will also be an offence to "cultivate, entice or induce children to have an online relationship with other children for a sexual act," the report added.