EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Section 67B of the IT Act, 2000 makes publishing, transmitting, viewing or downloading child pornography illegal. According to Section 67B, any person who has not attained the age of 18 years is a child. Section 292 of IPC prohibits the sale of obscene material.

Detailed explanation-2: -Section 67B, IT Act, 2000 (Transmitting material depicting children, including nude or sexually explicit pictures of self, if a child): Whoever, publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted material in any electronic form which depicts children engaged in sexually explicit act or conduct or.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important tools to curtail it are sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act, prohibiting obscene and sexually explicit material respectively. The fact that our lawmakers felt two provisions are required to deal with such material is interesting. Where the offline world is concerned, the law only prohibits obscenity.