The teenagers in today’s world are facing a new challenge from the gadgets which bombard them with all kinds of information without any censor at the touch of a button, the judge said. Photograph used for representational purposes only
Generation Z (Gen Z) teenagers are getting addicted to porn just like the millennials used to get addicted to cigarettes and liquor. Instead of damning and punishing such youngsters with criminal charges, society must be mature enough to counsel them out of these addiction, the Madras High Court has said.
Justice N. Anand Venkatesh made these observations while quashing a case booked against a youngster by the Ambattur police in Chennai for having downloaded two child porn videos from the Internet and watching it on his mobile phone. The police had seized the mobile phone and found the two videos in it.
However, the judge said, watching porn videos in private, per se, would not attract either Section 14 (1) of the Protection of Children from…
