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The Hindu
The Hindu
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Mohamed Imranullah S.

Teens must be counselled out of porn addictions rather than being punished: Madras High Court

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.

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