Blaming porn sites for the rising incidence of sexual crimes against women, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday urged the Centre to ban all such internet platforms which proffered voyeuristic pleasure through video clips of rapes purportedly filmed by the perpetrators themselves.
Referring to the infamous rape and murder case of Hyderabad after which a couple of similar incidents have been reported from Buxar and Samastipur districts of Bihar, Kumar said he was planning to write a letter to the centre seeking a complete ban on such sites across the country.
“A disgusting trend has been witnessed..Incidents involving women in far-off Hyderabad, in Bihar, in UP.. In all places. I have always expressed reservations about the social media and the ill-effects of technology, while not denying its enormous benefits”, Kumar who is techno-savvy and an engineer by training said here.
The chief minister was in this north Bihar district on the final day of the first phase of his “Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali Yatra” during which he proposes to cover the entire length and breadth of the state with his message for environmental conservation and combating climate change. In his nearly 45-minute-long address, Kumar referred to sexual crimes after speaking about his thrust on climate change which, he asserted, was in line with his social reform measures like prohibition and campaigns against child marriage and dowry.