Ban porn sites, wife pleads to Supreme Court over husband's addiction.
Though the Supreme Court has asked the government to suggest ways to ban child pornography, a woman has now approached the top court seeking a ban on obscene sites due to her husband's addiction, reported Times of India.
Pleading that the porn addiction had destroyed her matrimonial life, the Mumbai-based woman, who is also a social worker, filed a petition seeking direction to the Centre to take immediate steps to ban such obscene sites.
"My husband has of late become a addict of porn and spends a lot of his precious time watching pornography. As a result, my husband has fallen prey to this addiction of watching pornographic videos and pictures which has made my husband's mind perverted and ruined my matrimonial life," she said in her petition.
Stating that she was happily married for the past 30 years, petitioner added, "The matrimonial problem started in 2015 when my husband got addicted to pornography websites despite being father of two children."
"I and my children are suffering as a result of porn addiction of my husband. I am unfortunately a victim of matrimonial dispute resulting out of porn addiction of my husband," she said.
The apex court had on February 26, 2016, asked the government to suggest ways to ban child pornography saying the nation cannot 'afford to carry on any experiment' in the name of "liberty or freedom of speech and expression".
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 crimes 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 the 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.
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