Child pornography arrests increasing in India
Indian children hold candles and photographs of missing children during a candle lit vigil in New Delhi, 14 January 2007, to demand justice for the parents of missing children and victims of the Nithari serial killings.
The number of cases and arrests related to child pornography is rising steadily in India, reports the Times of India.
Across the country, there were 99 cases of child pornography in 2007, 105 in 2008 and 139 in 2009, the paper cited minister of state for home M Ramachandran as saying in an address to parliament.
Over the same period, there were 86 arrests in 2007, 90 in 2008 and 141 in 2009, Ramachandran said.
The states of Kerala and Maharashtra accounted for most of the cases, with 27, 17 and 25 child pornography cases in Maharashtra for the tree years in question and 20, 39 and 44 cases in Kerala.
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