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Court orders probe into porn-in-website case

NEW DELHI, FEB 23. A Delhi court has ordered a thorough probe into a case in which links to pornographic material were allegedly found in the site of a leading portal.

Ordering the probe, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manoj Jain said, ``investigation has not been carried out in the desired manner and it does not seem to be impossible to trail and pinpoint the offender''.

The court noted that the portal indiatimes.com ``wished to wash-off its hands'' claiming that no publisher of any website was ever in a position to know what content from which site anywhere in the world would get automatically incorporated or linked to the site given the interactivity of technology.

Not satisfied with this explanation, the court said, ``such content cannot be aired or published by the media without knowledge or consent of respective broadcasters''.

``Someone has to come forward and take moral responsibility for the contents being published on such a website,'' the court said.

The court also asked the police to submit a report before it on March 27.

In the name of advancing technologies and modernism no one can be allowed to churn out pornographic material, which was likely to spoil young minds, the court said.

On information received through e-mail to Delhi Police Crime Branch, Inspector K S Bhatnagar of the Cyber Cell had lodged a report alleging the indiatimes.com had links to an obscene site indian-models.com. The FIR in the case was lodged on May 10, 2000.

Observing that it was very easy these days for the youth to access adult jokes by sending a request via SMS to a phone number which was also run by the same media group, the court asked the police to probe into the same.

Even tiny tots of the new generation can be seen playing with cell phones, the court said, adding that sincere efforts should be made so that young minds were not spoiled any further.

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