Madhya Pradesh Home Minister holds pornography responsible for rape, calls for ban
Bhopal, Apr 24 (IBNS): Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh Thakur has called for a ban on pornography which he considered to be responsible for criminal activities like rape and sexual assault, media reports said.
Singh has been quoted by The Times Of India, "A study conducted by the state's home department revealed that pornography is corroding childhood. Boys and girls are easily influenced by the pornography and have easy access to such erotic sites and materials. This is provoking crimes like rape and sexual assault."
He has also stated that the Madhya Pradesh government has banned about 25 pornographic sites and also urged the central government to put an immediate ban on such sites to curb such heinous activities.
Singh has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for enacting law to award capital punishment to all those who are convicted of raping minors below the age of 12.
The Delhi High Court on Monday rapped the Centre for coming out with an ordinance awarding death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age.
The court asked the Centre if it had done any research before bringing out such an ordinance.
“Did you carry out any study, any scientific assessment that death penalty is a deterrent to rape? Have you thought of the consequences to the victim?," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar reportedly questioned the Centre.
The bench asked that how many victims will be left alive by the offenders when they will find that murder and rape amount to same punishment.
The significant move came amid the nationwide outrage over the series of incidents of sexual assault of minor girls, including the one in Kathua.
In Kathua, eight-year old Asifa was raped, mutilated and murdered inside a temple by some men.
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