Child Rape Cases are Rising Due to Porn: MP Home Minister
“We are contemplating banning porn in Madhya Pradesh,” Bhupendra Singh said.
The gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua has restarted the debate on the safety of women and children in India, but a Cabinet minister in the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government has come up with a solution.
Madhya Pradesh’s Home Minister Bhupendra Singh on Tuesday, 24 April, blamed pornographic websites for the rising number of child rape and molestation cases in India, ANI reported.
The Madhya Pradesh government is considering banning porn, he added.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has already blocked 25 porn websites, ANI reported. The home minister’s statement comes two days after the body of a six-month-old, who was allegedly raped, was recovered in Indore.
“The accused, Sunil Bheel, had kidnapped her early morning on 21 April when she was asleep with her parents outside the Rajwada fort. The accused was sleeping close to the family,” HC Mishra, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Indore, told PTI.
In December 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly passed a Bill awarding the death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 and below.
A National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on 30 November last year showed that Madhya Pradesh reported the highest incidents of rapes in 2016. Of all the rape incidences in the country, 12.5 percent (4,882 cases) were reported from Madhya Pradesh.
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