Cyber Pornography

To _ ,
THE COUNCIL OF STATES ( RAJYA SABHA)
The petition of JAIN ACHARYA VIJAY RATNASUNDERSURI
(Acharya of Jain Tapagachha Community) having its · correspondence
address at Ratnatrayee Trust, 258, Gandhi Gali, Swadeshi Market, Kalbadevi
Road, Mumbai. Pin. 400 002.

AND JOINT PETIONER
l)SHRI VIJAY J.DARDA, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
· Yavatmal House,49 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003
2)Pravin B.Jain,
ANlJ CO- PETIONER
2-Revti Apt. opp .Sambhaji Stadium, Cidco, Nasik-422009
3)Sanjay K.Vora,
13-Vashiyar valley,Atul Road,Valsad (Gujrat)396001 .
4) Pratibha Naitthani,
· 311 Dharti,, Satyanagar, Borivali (W), Mumbai- 92.

1. More than 2/3 part of India's population is below 35 years and this part of our '
population is our hope for the great future of nation. On one hand, we desire to
make youth empowered and skilled and on the other hand, they are getting
. digressed, distorted and distressed from the various mediums of modem
communication systems!

2. Growing free-sex culture through Cyber Pornography is the most dangerous (
example of these digression, distortion and distress. Why are people getting
attracted to it? What kind of entertainment is this? Which society in this
civilized world defines pornography as the part of entertainment? I feel, Cyber
Pornography is not "Manoranjan" (Entertainment), it is "Manobhanjan" (mind­
destruction) which directly
3. I read a report in The Times of India which had exposed the dangerous and"
rapid growth of Pornographic websites. According to this report, the number of
pornography related web pages in the world grew from 14 million in 1998 to ;
roughly 260 million in 2003, which means it increased by nearly 1800 times in !
the period of five years! According to India Today, "Almost 70% of the traffic
that passes through the gateways of Internet is adult in nature." And this is
increasing as fast as the water flows down the slope.
4. Various research and studies have proved that Cyber Pornography is
hazardous for the society as a whole . It distorts social harmony and balance and
creates an atmosphere of destruction which leads people to social and family
dissolution. There is a horrible trend in U.S.A. which is called 'Fatherless
America' or 'Motherless America ' . This trend is related to those "Orphaned"
children whose father or mother although alive are addicted to Cyber
Pornography and don't take any care of their children and the family. Do you
think there is any scope of a bright future for these children?!
5. Due to rapid spread and growth of Internet, Millions of teenaged children get
addicted to Cyber Pornography . Naturally it affects their tender minds · and
hence these children have started experimenting what they wai-CK - 8n ; ~ th~ porn
websites. There is a sincere need to consider that how will we manage these
kinds of experiment-oriented children and ' what will be the consequences of
these experiments.
6. The two obvious impacts on adolescents (children between 12 to 18 years)
due to Cyber Pornography would be - first, they get addicted to it and second,
they become sexually active at the tender age which is definitely not advisable.
In both the cases the implications of these tendencies are very destructive. It
may lead children to a perilous chain of psycho-physical problems . . They
become the victims of problems like Sexually Transmitted Disease (S.T.D.) and
teenage pregnancy whose numbers are dangerously increasing. In order to save
the children and adolescents from these hazardous impacts, Government has
introduced the program of imparting sex education in schools. It has rather
helped spreading free-sex culture and increase in pornography! Many western
countries. are experiencing this. In effect , the solution itself has become the
problem.
7. I learnt from a website that a . boy, aged ten, after watching an x-rated film,
raped an eight year old girl and her four year old sister! There will be thousands
of such cases that are related to child sex-crimes in so-called developed
countries. Just think about India, a country who has about 200 million children,
and a country in which there is a rapid growth of "Bedizens". Can we
confidently say that we will be · able to save our citizens specifically the
teenaged children and youth from the ill effects of cyber pornography? Sounds
difficult, but we can.
8. It is a pity that any parent addicted to Cyber pornography becomes vict~~ - of
many sexual deformities which destroys their happy married life and ultimately
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leads to divorce. And hence in the western countries they have started believing
that pornography destroys the very institution of marriage . and results in
destruction of the lives of their children.
9. The child pornography related websites exploit innocent children for making
pornographic films. This is the worst torturing aspect of Cyber Pornography in
which sexual exploitation of children becomes a reality. These sites influence
and lure millions of people to commit sexual exploitation of children. Many
children from the developing countries like India have become the victims of
such exploitation since many years. They also have become the victims of
human trafficking · and child prostitution through various online mediums
available.
10. This is just a tip of an iceberg as it is only the short narration of the
dangerous impacts of cyber pornography on children. Not only children, any
person of any age group can be affected in a similar way. Cyber Pornography is .
nothing but such a poison for the children and youths and hence is totally
inappropriate, unacceptable and dangerous in our society. We should get rid of
this sort of socio-cultural pollution
11.Today, not only computers and televisions but Mobile phones also have
become a handy source for the adolescents to view this kind of porn sites.
12.The question is what are the legal and supportive measures to be undertaken
to make society totally free from the poison of pornography? Many liberal
democratic countries like U.S.A,U.K., Australia, France, etc . have introduced
specific laws and other technological solutions to curb Online pornography.
India should also take some concrete steps to curb this menace. In this regards,
there is a need to follow below written policy related steps -
I. By amending the Information Technology Act, 2000, we should add the
Extreme pornography and hardcore pornography on computer or mobile as a
crime and should include specific provisions for severe punishment for the
producer, distributer and viewers of such Online Pornography. - -
II. India should follow the programs of Australian Govenment which are
related to technological support for people surfing internet on their PCs to get
rid of online pornography. Australian Government provides free Internet Filters
to all the P.C. owners at absolutely no cost. India can also provide this Filter
free of cost to the P.C. owners as well as Cyber Cafes.
III. There should be a compulsion for every _ Internet Service Provider to block
the Porn Sites. I.S.P.s like V~rizon and Sprint and others have agreed - to - block
the porn sites in U.S.A. We also can introduce such policy for Indian I.S.P.s.
IV. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India} should issue the
comprehensive guidelines for telecom companies to curb the watching
pornography on mobile gadgets.
V. There is an urgent need to establish a Cyber  Police Force under the newly
made National Investigation Agency. This force will be responsible for
implementing the Information Technology Act, 2000 and will curb the Cyber
Pornography, Cyber Terrorism and other Cyber Crimes.
VI. It is true 'that millions of porn sites are freely available on net. Such -porn ·
sites sell porn films through net and utilize credit card and other facilities of the
banking system for such transactions . We can take support of banking vigilance
system to indentify the distributers and viewers of Cyber Pornography.

And accordingly, the petitioner heartily requests you to examine all of the above
issues related to the life of our future generations . Survival of any civilization 
depends on their women, · children and youth, and the Cyber Pornography is
proving hazardous for all the three, Please consider this petition and make
suitable recommendation to Government of India.