CBI wants its staff in Google, FB to monitor cybersex offences
October 09, 2015 12:24
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday told the Supreme Court that men are to be blamed for the rise in pornography on the web, reports Abraham Thomas in the Pioneer newspaper, its affidavit stating that the increase of porn in Indian cyberspace is on account of the domineering male population's "insatiable lust' and "penchant for salacious material.'
The Pioneer report said it also agreed with a suggestion by the petitioner to depute a CBI officer of the rank of SP to social networking sites such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Yahoo, Hike and Bing to ensure speedy detection and prosecution of offenders.
The affidavit, reports Thomas, came in response to a PIL filed by the NGO Prajwala over disturbing sexual violence videos where the perpetrators showed no remorse or fear of the law while filming the rape of innocent girls and women.
In order to arrest the trend and punish perpetrators of such crimes, which it termed national crimes, for it concerned safety of young women and children, the CBI said that it was high time that a central law enforcement authority was vested with the power to investigate and prosecute all cyber crimes, the report says.
The affidavit, filed by T Rajah Balaji, superintendent of police, Special Crimes Branch, said: 'The sharp rise in rapes with the ubiquity of internet-enabled pornography, coupled with the forces of rapid urbanisation that lead to disconnected lives of youth have produced a complex social crisis in this country, which can be correlated to the rampant proliferation of such (cyber) crimes.'
'Rape and gang-rape represent the oldest and longest continuing instances of a criminal man's inhumanity on woman. Committing such abhorrent crimes, recording them and disseminating them across the world through Internet-enabled media serve to titillate and indirectly embolden other males to commit such heinous crimes. These not only add to the misery of existing victims but also endanger and threaten the safety of other innocent women and children,' the affidavit states.
The CBI would thus like an inter-state, inter-jurisdictional authority, stretching even to international limits, to deal with cyber crimes and ensure deterrence for such offenders, the Pioneer report states.
Stating that it alone had the expertise to suo motu deal with such complaints, the CBI asked the court to pass such an order in the interest of preserving the dignity of women.
TOP STORIES
© 2024 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances