Obscenity and Pornography

Pornography is printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement or seems lewd from a responsible reader standpoint.. Pornography is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purpose of sexual arousal. Pornography may be presented in a variety of media, including books, magazines, postcards, photographs, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, and video games, websites. Increased use of information technology, such as Internet and communication devices has led to proliferation of illegal websites containing obscene and pornographic materials.Obscenity and pornography have not been specifically defined under any Act in India but The Indian Penal Code, 1860, The Information Technology Act, 2000, The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, deal with obscenity and pornography and make publishing or transmission, sale of obscene and pornographic materials as punishable offences under various porovisions.

Sections 292, 293, 294, 354, 354A, 354B, 354C,509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

Sections 66E, 67,67A, 67B of the 

Information Technology Act, 2000

Section 6 of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986