{"id":56326,"date":"2019-06-11T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T03:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=56326"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T03:38:07","slug":"kerala-high-court-order-mere-possession-of-sexually-explicit-photos-not-punishable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kerala-high-court-order-mere-possession-of-sexually-explicit-photos-not-punishable","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court Order : Mere possession of sexually explicit photos not punishable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong> : Mere possession of sexually explicit photos will not amount to a crime under the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, the Kerala High Court has ruled.The court, while quashing criminal proceedings against a man and a woman, however, made it clear that publication or distribution of such photos is punishable under the law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If an adult person has a photograph of himself or herself in his or her possession which is sexually explicit in nature, the provisions of the Act 60 of 1986 will not apply, unless the prosecution has a case that those photographs were distributed or published for advertisement or for any other incidental purpose,&#8221; Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan said in a recent order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-11T090733.558.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" data-attachment-id=\"56327\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/kerala-high-court-order-mere-possession-of-sexually-explicit-photos-not-punishable\/download-2019-06-11t090733-558\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-11T090733.558.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download &amp;#8211; 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