Plea In Supreme Court Over Data On Link Between Rape, Pornography
NDTV
The petitioner has urged the Court to direct the state governments to urgently make available such data from their respective police and investigation agencies to the BPRD.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to direct the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) to collect data in a time-bound manner from all the state police organisations on investigations revealing a direct link between viewing pornographic material and rape.
The petition has been moved by advocate Nalin Kohli, who has apprised the Court about an investigation by the Police in Assam into the gruesome murder of a six-year-old girl wherein it has been revealed that the four perpetrators of the crime, including two minor boys between eight and 11, were porn addicts.
As a consequence of this, the Assam Police has issued guidelines to be followed by the investigating officer for collecting digital evidence while investigating offences related to rape, molestation and other sexual offences.
The petitioner sought the direction of the Court to all the state police organisations to collect data in a time-bound manner on the linkage between the viewing of pornographic material and rape and also consider formulating an SOP by its police to include the aspect of viewing of pornographic material while investigating cases of rape and sexual assault.
