Times of India - Times City - Chennai edition - 13-Aug-2008
4 held in lodge for watching porn
Police On Daily Checks Raid Mansions, Arrest Software Professionals TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chennai: In what seems to be an act of moral policing, a special team from the Triplicane police station raided a mansion in Triplicane and arrested four persons, including three software professionals, for watching blue films in their room. Police claimed to have seized 57 digital video discs containing pornography from the room of three software professionals and seven more DVDs from the room of a mechanic. The police team, which is now engaged in daily checks at lodges and mansions as part of security measures prior to Independence Day celebrations, raided a mansion on Triplicane High Road and arrested three software engineers in their late twenties, and a mechanic. The four were remanded in judicial custody. Their ‘offence’ was watching blue films in their room, behind locked doors. “They had many pornography movie discs with them. Why should they have so many discs? There is a possibility that they might sell them in the market. That is why we arrested them,” S Lakshmi, deputy commissioner, Triplicane, said. Police seem to have forgotten that such DVDs with pornographic content are available freely in markets like Burma Bazaar for just Rs 15 onwards. By selling 57 discs, the men could have made a maximum of Rs 1,000. “The claim of the police does not make any sense as the youth are paid a handsome salary,” another resident of the mansion said. “The police have no right to intrude on us. We pay rent for our rooms and it is our private space. We are not criminals. We choose to stay in mansions because most landlords in the city refuse to rent their houses to bachelors. This incident is an example of police high-handedness,” Krishna Prabu, who stays in a mansion in Royapettah, said. MORAL POLICING Police claim to have seized 57 DVDs containing pornography from three software professionals Seven more DVDs were seized from a mechanic Porn DVDs are available freely in markets like Burma Bazaar for as low as Rs 15 By selling the 57 discs, the men could have made a maximum of only Rs 1,000.
Yes, this is worse than the victorian era.
ReplyDeleteI think i read somewhere that in the Victorian era, prostitution was well patronised in London... That is beside the point.
Chennai is worse and getting worser. Do you know that here, police can ask to see your cellphone and then arrest you if they find the wrong videos or pictures in your mobile? Because you can forward them to children, you know.
And they can put you in jail for a year under the Goondas Act, no questions asked.
We are living in dangerous times, we have to be really careful with what we do, whom we do it with, and um... ahem... even what/whom we do it without...
Welcome on board Siva.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with the police action but unfortunately our law prohibits pornography and I think watching it, even in private quarters, is an offense. I feel sorry for them.
stomach burning. all that i can tell. hard time for them. they must know how to do mthings. outside computers also. anyhow shiva welcome.
ReplyDeleteHave some pity on poor bachelor boys.
ReplyDeleteThe Govt is putting up billboards saying use condoms, have safe sex etc.
But it is illegal to watch some silly moves.
Are we expected to do things with eyes closed?
Please someone tell me what bachelor boys are supposed to do.
Bas I pity them really but honestly pornography is perversion. Having sex is one thing and watching pornography is another thing. People should have safe sex and use condoms but that doesn't mean they should watch pornography. There is hell lot in this world to do than just watching porn.
ReplyDeleteHave a heart, please.
ReplyDeleteIf you listen to spiritual people, they would say sex after the first child is itself a perversion.
I am not speaking about college kids.
These are well employed well settled young men in their mid twenties.
How will these films harm them?
Anyhow, there is the impulse. How to channelise that.
I think i read somewhere that people who see porn are likely to refrain from the act.
If that is so, porn is a good thing because it keeps them off AIDS.
Anyhow, arresting them for seeing it is too heavy and high-handed. A Supreme Court Judge himself is saying that we should get rid of laws that make homosexuality illegal, and here you are still putting people in jail for the kind of entertainment that is available to the helpless.
Bas they were treated badly and I certainly believe putting them in Jail for this is too much.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the point that watching Porn may be a better outlet and in the process avoid other problems. But then they know it is illegal so when caught will have to face the reality.
57 discs means they are up to no good and are likely to be up to no good to society in general. Siva man, much as I am open and understanding, I'm glad they had their rasses hauled up in the news. Young chaps with handsome salaries shouldn't be watching porn....they should be helping old people cross roads, or coaching underpriviledged children, or lending a hand at home/society...or, if they are incapable of all that, they should be going out with their sweethearts instead and bringing a smile to their faces.
ReplyDeleteI cannot fathom what sort of a guy would like to wallow in 57 discs of porn.
They may just want more variety SB. :) :) :)
ReplyDelete57 varieties!!!! What is this...some kind of porn chefs' conclave or something where they whip up dishes of their respective fancy? :)
ReplyDeleteOf course, the discussion must then inevitably call upon to include Kamasutra of the sages...it may well have to.