Watching, mere storage of child pornography crime: Supreme Court

New Delhi, 23/10: The Supreme Court on Monday held that failure to delete, or keeping child pornography material from any individual device would constitute an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

In its “landmark” judgment, a bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra also directed the Union government to bring an amendment to replace term “child pornography” with “Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse material ”

 

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