Around 3,500 websites hosting child pornographic content blocked last month: Centre tells SC

The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that around 3,500 websites hosting child pornographic content were blocked last month.

We have asked CBSE to consider installation of jammers in schools to block access to child pornographic websites," Centre told SC

The government also said that installation of jammers in school buses is not possible and steps are taking steps to curb child pornography in its entirety.

Earlier, the court had given time to the government to suggest ways to ban child pornography in all its forms and took on record the Centre's earlier direction to internet service providers to block porn sites.

A women lawyers' body had earlier moved the apex court seeking blocking of all porn websites, saying that pornography 'corrupts' the mind of the young generation and leads them to commit crime against women and children. The intervention application filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association​ (SCWLA) had come after the Centre's decision to lift ban on 857 porn sites.

The petitioner had pleaded that although watching obscene videos is not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they were one of the major causes for crimes against women.

"The sexual content that kids are accessing today is far more graphic, violent, brutal, deviant and destructive and has put entire society in danger, so also safety threats to public in India