Many sex related topics, such as pornography, are considered taboo in traditional Indian households. Supreme court has ordered CBI probe to find and arrest the culprits clearly visible in the rape videos.
Prajwala NGO pleaded to court to stop rampant circulation of rape videos through mobile application WhatsApp. Prajwala Letter dated VIDEOS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS, a suo moto PIL was admitted in Supreme Court (Diary No.- 6818 - 2015). When we say nation, we mean each member of the collective". The innocent children cannot be made prey to these kind of painful situations, and a nation, by no means, can afford to carry any kind of experiment with its children in the name of liberty and freedom of expression. On 26 January 2016, the Supreme Court in written order, instructed govt "to suggest the ways and means so that these activities are curbed. The government informed the Court that the Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee constituted under Section 88 of the IT Act, 2000 was assigned with a brief with regard to availability of pornography on the Internet and it was looking into the matter. The Court issued a notice to the central government of India and sought its response. Union of India and ors in 2013 (diary 5917, 2013), a PIL petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India seeking a ban on pornography in India. (1995) 1 SCC 574, held that there is no fundamental right to carry on business of exhibiting and publishing pornographic or obscene films and literature. The Supreme Court of India, in Khoday Distilleries Ltd. The four accused told police that they raped the girl after watching pornography on the Internet. The court cited the rape of a 10th standard girl from Dehradun by four of her seniors. In October 2018 the government directed Internet service providers to block 827 websites that host pornographic content following an order by the Uttarakhand High Court. In February 2016 the Supreme Court asked the Indian Government to suggest ways of banning all forms of child pornography. The ban from the government came after a lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that online pornography encourages sex crimes and rapes. In 2015 the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had asked internet service providers to take down 857 websites in a bid to control cyber crime, but after receiving criticism from the authorities it partially rescinded the ban. In August 2015 the Government of India issued an order to Indian ISPs to block at least 857 websites that it considered to be pornographic. In July 2015 the Supreme Court of India refused to allow the blocking of pornographic websites and said that watching pornography indoors in the privacy of one's own home was not a crime.
The selling and distribution of pornographic material is illegal in India under section 292.Prior to the explosion of the internet, soft-core pornographic movies were popularly consumed in India. Online erotic comics have also become popular in India as the internet becomes more readily available to the common citizen. Quartz has have found that 50% of Indian IP addresses accessed popular pornography websites on mobile phones. As smartphone and internet access in India continues to increase, more people will be able to privately view pornography. One self reporting survey found that 63% of youths in urban areas such as Haryana reported watching pornography, with 74% accessing it through their mobile phones. A popular porn site released viewership data and national capital Delhi recorded up to 40% of all traffic. It has become a major portion of traffic and source of data revenue for telecom companies. Internet pornography has become very popular in India with from 30% up to 70% of total traffic from porn websites. Sherlyn Chopra (left) and Poonam Pandey (right) are very active on adult platform OnlyFans.