India's Response to Combating Child Pornography

The treatment of children as sexual objects is not a new 
phenomenon. It has existed in the society from time immemorial
through the medium of erotic literature and drawings which involved
children. The modern sense of pornography came into existence
with the invention of video and digital cameras, computers, software
and most important of all the development of internet. The growth
of information and technology has rendered the making of child
pornography cheap and has also made the distribution and production
an easy task. The internet has become a repository to a large amount
of information and data and is becoming a major medium of
transmission of pornographic materials.
 Because of the trans-national nature of internet, paedophiles can
easily access child pornography from other countries also.
 The other problem lies is about the jurisdiction as the problem is
trans-border one the state as consideration of the sovereignty as the
most important feature generally disallow any other country or state
to interfere with their problem.
 Child pornography being an illegal business, determining its actual
worth is not possible. Governments across the globe have condemned
children being subject to pornography and have been taking measures 
to regulate the internet. Lately, even Indian Government has put in 
efforts to curtail child pornography, but all the efforts are failing.
The efforts put by the government are in proper direction or not that
is the matter of the more serious concern. This research is done in
consideration with these things in mind. This present research article
shall discuss the various national and international responses to child
pornography and shall also discuss the whether the existing laws
sufficiently tackle this heinous crime.