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Internet pornography becomes serious crime in India * New law allows inspectors to raid and arrest suspects without warrant By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: A new law introduced in India has made Internet pornography a serious crime. Browsing or downloading pornographic pictures or films will now attract a punishment of five years with a fine of up to Rs 1 million. The term may be raised to seven years on second offence. Raid: The Information Technology (Amendment) Bill that was passed without debate by parliament this week with 45 amendments in the original law treats both purveyors of pornography and recipients in the same manner. It gives wide powers to the authorities that a computer user may realise only when he is hauled up. The worst is that an inspector can raid and arrest an accused without a warrant. In the original law enacted in 2000, this power was vested in officers of the rank of deputy superintendent of police and above. Some websites automatically open with pornographic pictures that might leave footprints in a user’s computer that would be enough for an inspector to arrest and prosecute the person. To satisfy the activists who campaign against child abuse, the bill provides a full section subtitled ‘punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc in electronic form’. If any of these are found on a computer, the onus is on the owner to establish that the depicted are not children or will be punished. Another section of the bill provides for any government agency to interrupt, monitor or decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer. Ambiguity has been kept in the provision that empowers the cyber security to monitor the Internet traffic. Introducing any ‘contaminant’ in a computer or network is covered in the new category of ‘cyber terrorism’ in the bill that would attract imprisonment and might extend to life term since it claims “such conduct causes or is likely to cause death or injuries to persons or damages to or destruction of property”. It does not explain how a computer crime could cause death or injuries. Cyber terrorism also seeks to cover other acts of terrorism committed electronically like threatening the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or to strike terror on the people or to access computer sources that are restricted for reasons of security of the state or foreign relations. The bill also provides for punishment with a jail term of up to three years and a fine for sending any information — that is grossly offensive or has menacing character or is known to be false — for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, or any electronic mail or message meant to cause annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or mislead the addressee or recipient.t. Identity theft to misuse a person’s electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature or impersonation in electronic activity are punishable with a three-year imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs 0.1 million. Thefts of computer source codes and programmes have also been dealt with in the bill. DAMAYANTI DATTA NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 | UPDATED 11:29 IST The Dark Side Of Sunny Porn Pornography on the Internet hits Indian society TAGS: Sunny Leone | Porn |Adult entertainment industry |Pornography | Pornography in India | Bigg Boss 5 | Porn clips | Savita Bhabhi | Blue Film | Asa Akira | Jessica |Drake | Jesse Jane Sunny Leone RELATEDS Sunny Leone ready to quit porn for B'wood Sunny's secrets revealed | World's top porn stars It's quite Sunny in Bigg Boss After her high-profile stint on Bigg Boss 5, Canadian-Indian porn star Sunny Leone, 30, co-hosted the US porn industry's biggest night, the AVN Awards show in Las Vegas on January 21. On February 7, three Karnataka ministers were captured on television poring over a phone screen, watching a woman in a petticoat gyrating wildly. They lost their jobs for watching pornography in the sacred precincts of the Legislative Assembly. The incident is a high-profile sample of a definitive reality: porn is pervasive through the Internet across India, easily and freely available, not just to leery politicians but to children and adults in millions of ordinary homes. It is a sign of the times that the most famous international porn star has Indian roots and was on Indian television. Sunny Leone, 30, appeared on the reality show Big Boss 5 and has now launched a clothes-on Bollywood career. Her fake breasts, that won the 2010 fame Award for Favourite Breasts in Los Angeles, have brought her the honour of being named among the 50 Most Desirable Women by the nation's biggest daily this month. The organised $12 billion (Rs.60,000 crore) American adult entertainment industry, to which Leone belongs, has bred explicit images beyond the limits of imagination. And they are free. Fuelled by the Internet and facilitated by high-speed data service, pornography, born in dozens of studio lofts around the world, has entered teenagers' mobile phones with the force and sweep of a dangerous flood. It threatens to swamp conventional notions of morality, raise tensions in bedrooms, lure children into a world they do not understand, and initiate a culture that threatens the mores of family life as we know it. She never got her wish of posing nude for the Indian cricket team but kept herself busy making videos bathing in a two-piece, stripping for a magazine shoot and posting semi-nude pictures on her website. The writing is on the wall. Google Trends show the search volume index for the word 'porn' has doubled in India between 2010 and 2012. With instant Net connectivity and flexible payment options, online porn is increasingly affordable, accessible and acceptable. Seven Indian cities are among the top 10 in the world on porn search, reports Google Trends, 2011. One out of five mobile users in India wants adult content on his 3G-enabled phone, according to an 2011 IMRB Survey. Over 47 per cent students discuss porn every day, says a public school survey by Max Hospital in Delhi. Porn tops the list of cyber crimes in India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Click here to Enlarge Rape, penetration, oral, anal, lesbian, gay or group porn are yesterday's news. There is now a hectic crossover of porn subcultures on the World Wide Web. Consider MILF (or Mothers I Like to F***) porn. "Check out the most notorious hot, mature moms going crazy and getting f****d by young studs," invites one of the 40,600,000 MILF websites. "A hot and sexy bride is getting raped brutally," says a 'ravished bride' porn site. There is 'pregnant porn' ("Are you ready to see these moms-to-be in action?). There is 'incest porn' that welcomes you to sites with "xxx videos full of mother and son, dad and daughter". Child porn blends with 'teen porn', promising "fascinating porn actions starring our young models". New jargon and innovative formats, borrowed from foreign cultures, are trendy on the web. For the uninitiated, chikan ("to grope" in Japanese) porn is all about public molestation in trains. 'Bukkake' parties involve repeated ejaculation on a woman by several men. Shemale and futanari porn mean "live action" with transsexuals. Anime and manga refer to Japanese formats of sexually- explicit comics and animation. A new focus is the service sector, with "shy massage girls" seducing clients, doctors and "hot babes in nurse uniforms" getting wild. In 'corporate porn' "busty secretaries" go down on their knees to pleasure their boss. Asa Akira (26): This Japanese-American is a newcomer to the top league. In 2012, she won seven AVNAwards, the 'Oscars of porn', awarded to honour exceptional performance in American adult movies. Sunny Leone (or Karen Malhotra) takes credit for the 'pornification' of India. "My presence on Bigg Bosshas empowered a lot of people to be open about their sexuality," she tells India Today. One of the richest adult actresses in the industry, with her SunLust Pictures in Los Angeles reporting a top line of over $1 million (Rs.5 crore), she is now getting ready to debut in filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt'sJism 2, playing a professional body double. The most-searched Google celebrity-powered by India, Bangladesh and Pakistan-she has 1,47,326 Twitter followers. Leone's success indicates the greater acceptability of porn in daily life. Internet is the new tool, exploding every embarrassing sexual adventure of public personalities (see box) and making every lurid detail an item of private consumption. Coming after the midwife Bhanwri Devi's sex cds with Rajasthan politician Mahipal Maderna in November 2011, public reaction to the Karnataka fiasco has ranged from indignation to amusement, but not shock: if political parties engaged in a morality-in-politics war, social activist Anna Hazare demanded the ministers be sent to jail and media professional Pritish Nandy summed up Bollywood's reaction by calling them the "3 idiots". "A porn star doesn't automatically mean prostitute," says Leone, now seeking respectability. She talks about her parents' initial shock turning into respect, how they taught her to be a "good person", years of hard work, restrained personal life, professionalism and lack of regrets. Like the girl-next-door, she tweets how she is learning Hindi, cooking sabziand massaging hair oil. Her endeavour will not be too difficult. Young adults, who grew up with cable TV, DVD players and the Internet, have been exposed to much more adult material than their parents.