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BEWARE OF EARLY SEXUAL GROOMING OF TEENAGERS Dr. Ritu Gautam & Abhijit Chanda “ 2.4 million online child sexual abuse case from India in 2017 ” stated by CID and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR), where 80% of children out of 2.4  lakh who are sexually abused are girls. Cyber-grooming is the process where someone (often an adult) befriends a child online and builds an emotional connection with future intention of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or trafficking. Such offence, as existed virtually therefore identification of culprit is tough because they use the Dark Web and Servers based in far countries. Thus, the parents should play a huge role to prevent such  abusement  or grooming by various  ways : ➢  To keep an eye on wards for Cyber-Surfing which can be tracked by account- configuration method; ➢  By putting limitation over their child to access internet and online games; ➢  By initiating con...

Prostitution , Generally when we see such issues or watch a movie on these issues we feel petty for those women and than move on. But When we actually confront instance come before us we react very differently. Why? What if she is a prostitute, she is a woman and human being too: Budhadev Karmaskar State Of West Bengal In this case, a sex worker was brutally murdered by appellant Buddhadev. The appellant Budhadev kicked her with fists and legs, and she fell down on the floor. The appellant then caught her by her hair and banged her head against the floor and the wall several times which left the victim bleeding from her ear, nose and head. The incident was witnessed by four persons, Abida, Maya, Asha and Parvati. The Apex Court in its division bench headed by Markandey Katju, J and Gyan Sudha Mishra, J stated: ‘we strongly feel that the Central and the State Governments through Social Welfare Boards should prepare schemes for rehabilitation all over the country for ph...

Cyber pornography in India, under the Information Technology Act, 2000, this is a grey area of the law, where it is not prohibited but not legalized either. Under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 makes the following acts punishable with imprisonment upto 3 years and fine upto 5 lakhs: Publication, including uploading on website or WhatsApp group; transmission  including sending obscene photos or images to any person via email, messaging, whats app or any other form of digital media; and causing to be published or transmitted. While Sections 67 A and B insert penal provisions in respect of offenses of publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act and child pornography in electronic form, Section 67C deals with the obligation of an intermediary to preserve and retain such information as may be specified for such duration and in such manner and format as the central government may prescribe. But "causing to be published or t...

Cyber Trolling                                                                        Dr. Ritu Gautam                                                                       [Cyber Law Expert] It has become a frequent feature in the news citing famous personalities being trolled on various social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. Most of them were female celebrities like Taapsee Panuu, Radhika Apte, Ameesha Patel, Kangna Raunat, Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapoor and who not. I think every female who speaks her mind or expresses her opinion, is vu...

https://theprint.in/opinion/bar-council-of-indias-discriminatory-age-cap-on-study-of-law-is-nonsensical/215186/  “The Supreme Court has asked the Bar Council of India to  reconsider  its rule on age limit for admission into law courses. The court said that there is no age to acquire education. Three years ago, the Bar Council of India (BCI) decided to impose an ageist bar on the study of law. Under this nonsensical norm, only those under 20 years of age were eligible to be admitted for the five-year integrated LLB programme and those under 30 years for the three-year post graduate LLB programme. The matter is now listed in the court for this week. Problems with age bar Age bars are problematic for more reasons than one. First, the limit is arbitrary. Why 20? Why not 21 or 25 for that matter? Indeed, the sheer arbitrariness is evidenced by the fact that the BCI itself yo-yoed on this count. It first indicated that the cut-off was 20 years for the five...

Doctrine of Vagueness                                                                                                                         Dr. Ritu Gautam                                                                                                                        (Cyber Law Expert) Doctrine of “Void for Vagueness” , originated in the American legal system, has been driven from...