Times of India: Bhubaneswar: Saturday, August 05, 2017.
In first ever
conviction in 'cyber pornography' in the state, the court of sub-divisional
judicial magistrate in Puri on Friday sentenced an RTI campaigner to six years
of imprisonment and imposed fine of Rs 9,000.
The convict
Jayant Kumar Das was arrested by state Crime Branch in 2012 for allegedly
uploading obscene remarks against a journalist's wife on a porn site. Special
director general of police (crime) B K Sharma said Das defamed the woman to
take revenge+ on her husband, who reportedly exposed his illegal money lending
business.
"Our
technical inquiry clearly revealed that Das created a forged e-mail account and
fake profile in name of the journalist's wife. Das linked the fake profile to a
porn website and posted vulgar remarks against her. Das also posted the
journalist's phone number on the porn portal," Sharma told TOI.
Disturbed
over getting a number of telephone calls and obscene messages, the journalist
lodged a complaint with Baselisahi police station in Puri in July 2012. The
cyber cell of Crime Branch took over investigation in August 2012 and arrested
Das on September 18, 2012. In its chargesheet filed in court in December same
year, the Crime Branch indicted Das under sections 292 (obscenity), 465 (forgery),
469 (forgery for the purpose of harming reputation) and 500 (punishment for
defamation) of IPC and 66C/67/67A of the Information Technology Act.
"During
the course of trial, the prosecution produced 13 witnesses, including the
scientist of Central Forensic Science Laboratory of Kolkata. We produced all
evidences against Das for having committed the acts of forgery, identity theft
and cyber pornography. This is state's first conviction in cyber
pornography," Sharma said.
Crime Branch
said some other criminal cases, relating to cheating, attempt to murder and
possession of illegal firearm registered against him at different police
stations in Puri are pending trial against Das. On April 23, 2015, a trial
court in Puri had sentenced Das to one-year imprisonment and Rs 3 lakh fine in
connection with a 2002 case, relating to dishonour of cheque.
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