The Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that the government will have to take steps to block porn sites particularly those showing child pornography and granted four weeks time to chart out plan of action.
‘Nothing, you have to do it,’ a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan said when Additional Solicitor General K V Viswanathan sought time to file response on a plea for blocking such sites in the country. On 12 July, the apex court had granted four weeks time to the Centre to devise a mechanism to block such sites.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani who pleaded that although watching obscene videos is not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they are one of the major causes for crime against women.
Advocate Vijay Panjwani, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that the Centre has failed to devise mechanism to block the Internet sites and absence of Internet laws encourage people to watch porn videos and as it is not an offence.
‘Nothing, you have to do it,’ a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan said when Additional Solicitor General K V Viswanathan sought time to file response on a plea for blocking such sites in the country. On 12 July, the apex court had granted four weeks time to the Centre to devise a mechanism to block such sites.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani who pleaded that although watching obscene videos is not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they are one of the major causes for crime against women.
Advocate Vijay Panjwani, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that the Centre has failed to devise mechanism to block the Internet sites and absence of Internet laws encourage people to watch porn videos and as it is not an offence.