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National women's panel seeks crackdown on porn
January 6, 2005
New Delhi - Taking note of the false implication of former Miss Jammu Anara
Gupta in a pornographic CD, the National Commission for Women has urged the
home ministry to crack down on disseminators of obscene material.
In a letter to Home Minister Shivraj Patil, the commission said the
implications of the forensic findings that Gupta was not the girl in a widely
propagated pornographic CD went "far beyond the unfortunate girl".
The panel urged the minister to see that state governments were alerted to the
menace of criminal gangs who marketed pornography and often misused technology
to implicate innocent women, destroying their reputation.
"Our city's malls are flooded with pornographic tapes and CDs produced by
criminal rackets purveying to a debased market. Modern technology is being
misused in a cut and paste manner to implicate innocent girls and women, whose
images, procured from unrelated settings, are being mixed with studio material
of a different origin," the commission's chairperson Poornima Advani said.
Forensic experts in Hyderabad had declared Wednesday that the porn CD sent to
it by Jammu and Kashmir Police did not feature former Anara Gupta, a revelation
that cast a cloud over the credibility of the police who had allegedly forced a
confession out of her.
Advani said it was most unfortunate that police in most cities were not taking
any serious action to curb this menace though they were empowered under the
Indian Penal Code.
"It is widely believed that this inaction is partly the result of unholy links
between the criminal gangs and law enforcement agencies at the subordinate
level," said Advani.
Indo-Asian News Service
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