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A man from Odisha gets six years of Jail in cyber pornography Section 67A: A Revenge Porn Case

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Judgement Dowload link A  Judicial Magistrate  in Puri today sentenced a man to six years of imprisonment in a cyber pornography (A revenge Porn) case, stated to be the first such case. Puri Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate Shibasis Giri also slapped a Rs-9,000 fine on the convict, Jayanta Kumar Das an alleged RTI activist, A fake profile was created by the accused in the name of the victim woman from Puri Township in a pornographic site, who then had uploaded the woman’s name, address, photo and phone number on a pornographic website in 2012 to take revenge against her husband. After her personal info was posed on the site, the victim started receiving calls from numerous persons enquiring about her interest in paid sex and wife swapping. The husband of the woman, a local journalist, had written about several cases involving the convict. The crime branch had arrested Das on September 18, 2012, following a complaint filed by the victim in July.He was...