DPS RK Puram Sex Scandal / Dhamaka
Dr. Gay Maharaj
MMS case: Media comes in for criticism
The Justice Juvenile Board on Monday came down heavily on the media,
particularly the visual media, for 'sensationalising' the Multimedia
Messaging Services case.
The case is about a boy and a girl of a Delhi school involved in a
sexual act. The boy had allegedly filmed the act with his cellphone and
forwarded the clip to his friends. The clip was later copied to a video
compact disk and put up for sale on Baazee.com, an auction website.
The court also ordered the scribes to neither name the boy, who has
been arrested, nor his school while reporting the matter.
Principal Magistrate Santosh Snehi Mann passed the order on a request
from the counsel for the school, Puneet Mittal.
Besides the boy, the police have also arrested Baazee.com's Chief
Executive Officer Avnish Bajaj in connection with the case.
A student of the Indian Institute of Engineering, Kharagpur, Ravi Raj,
who put up the clip for sale on Baazee.com was arrested and released
some days ago.
Mittal said minor children, who have to appear for their annual
examinations, are being adversely affected due to the media naming the
school while reporting the case.
Mann also said she will write to the Press Council of India on the
conduct of the Fourth Estate with regard to the case. "I am cautioning
you [media] from doing this and [am] writing to the Press Council of
India on the issue," she said.
The magistrate said the media is not being 'sensitive', but attempting
to 'sensationalise' the issue. "This is not the way to create
awareness. I am not advising you, but cautioning you. I will be writing
to the Press Council of India on this matter," she said.
She was visibly upset when cameramen from the visual media virtually
barged into her courtroom to take the clips of the boy, who was brought
under heavy escort. Throughout the hearing, the boy kept his face
covered in a manner that only the judge could see him.
The judge also restrained the media from naming the student of the
school, as any facts leading to the identification of the accused is
prohibited under the Juvenile Justice Act.
She directed that the 16-year-old boy be place under the custody of the
juvenile welfare officer for a day.
Mann said the police can question the boy in the presence of his father
and the JWO.
The boy will be produced in the court again on Tuesday afternoon.
The Delhi police had arrested him from the Indira Gandhi International
airport when he returned from Nepal on Sunday.
"We had sought the remand of the boy for five days to recover the
mobile phone with which he had taken the clip and circulated it to his
friends. But the judge has given us just one day [to question him]. We
will press for one more day's custody if we are unable to recover the
mobile phone," public prosecutor Sukhbir Singh told rediff.com.
The counsel for the boy, Amit Khanna, said, "The charge against my
client is totally false and he is being implicated in the case." He
asked the police to explain how they identified the boy when there was
no visual of his face in the clip that was circulated. "My client
should be given bail under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice Act,
2000, as he is merely 16 years old," he contended.
The Delhi police have registered cases under Sections 293, 294, 201
(destruction of evidence) and Section 67 of the IT Act.
Meanwhile, the top brass of Delhi police is yet to issue any guidelines
regarding the use of camera phones by students in schools. "We cannot
prevent the technology from being used. It is for the parents and
schools to tell the students what is good for them and what is not,"
said a senior officer of the Delhi police.
-Dr. Gay Maharaj
suma...@dell.com
idea of earning money from students.
Also it means childrens can have sex but should not record it.
Enjoy students of modern India. Enjoy having fun.