Woman moves Supreme Court over husband’s pornography addiction

Source:- india.com

New Delhi, Feb 16: A Mumbai-based woman has filed a petition in the Supreme Court alleging that online pornography has destroyed her married life. In her plea, she said that her married life has hit a roadblock as her husband became addicted to online pornography. The woman, a mother of two, pleaded the apex court to direct the Centre to act on imposing a ban on such obscene sites.

She even raised concern about the impact of pornography on children and youth while stating that if her husband, who is well-educated, can get addicted to it, how much harmful will it be for the younger generation.

As per The Times of India report, in her petition, she said, “My husband has of late become a addict of porn and spends a lot of his precious time watching pornography which is now-a-days is easily accessible through the internet. As a result my husband has fallen prey to this addiction of watching pornographic videos and pictures which has made my husband’s mind perverted and ruined my matrimonial life.”

The petitioner is a social worker and was happily married for 30 years. She told the court that the matrimonial problem started in 2015 when her husband got addicted to pornography websites despite being father of two children.

“I and my children are suffering as a result of porn addiction of my husband. I am unfortunately a victim of matrimonial dispute resulting out of porn addiction of my husband. I have also during my work as social worker come across people who have been adversely affected because of free and easy availability of porn contents all over the internet,” she said in her petition.

Expressing concern over easier access to porn websites, she further added that easy access of violent and hardcore porn websites is causing immense damage to family values in India. “My husband is in his advancing years but still he has gone astray due to porn addiction, imagine what this addiction can do to the innocent minds of youth and children,” she said.

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court had on February 26, 2016 asked the Centre to block all child pornography websites and had told the government that the excuse of technical difficulty in banning such sites would not be accepted as a ground for non-compliance of its order.

The court had asked the government to sit with Information Technology experts to find out ways and means to block such websites. “It is not permissible under Indian law and you have to block it,” the court had said.