The Supreme Court’s emphatic and welcome ruling that child pornography is illegal, even if watched in private, even if stored on a mobile or electronic device without being forwarded, is a tough and welcome stand that does away with any ambiguity in the law.
In fact, the two-judge bench of justices DY Chandrachud and JB Pardiwala have urged the government to change the legal definition of child ‘pornography’, since the word implies a degree of consent. They want it replaced with “child sexual exploitative and abuse material” or CSEAM.
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