The law could come to Savitabhabhi’s rescue, according to Pawan Duggal, cyber law expert and an advocate at the Supreme Court of India. (Vijayashankar has no training in psychology.) “A child will see a Savitabhabhi among his relatives.” When asked if there was any scientific basis to his thesis that pornographic cartoons did more damage to young people than pornographic videos, he said that was his own psychological interpretation. This, apart from the fact that an Indian name was being used in such an obscene cartoon, is what led me to make the complaint,” Vijayashankar said. This has a deeply corrupting influence on our youngsters. When a child is watching a cartoon, he imagines himself as the character. “Cartoons are a more participative medium. Vijayashankar, who describes himself as a “techno-legal information security consultant”, waged a sustained campaign against Savitabhabhi, complaining to the government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) as well as the Director General of Police in Karnataka in October last year. The portrayal of a married Indian woman as wildly promiscuous raised the hackles of many in a largely conservative nation. The site’s popularity did not come without its perils. In February, when Mint interviewed the anonymous creator of the strip, the site ranked 45th in India. According to, Savitabhabhi is the 82nd-most-visited Indian website, attracting more visitors than, the website of the Bombay Stock Exchange. The strip received much press last year, from Indian ( Mint, Tehelka) and international ( The Telegraph, The Independent) media outlets. It quickly acquired a cult following with its funny plot lines and the uniqueness of having an Indian setting in a porn strip. Launched in March 2008, is an adult cartoon strip featuring a married Indian woman’s sexual adventures. “What about a right to be heard before the blocking? There is none,” she wrote. In a recent column in The Hindu, media critic Sevanti Ninan laid down several concerns arising from the absolutist rules that will soon have the power of law. There has been mounting concern over upcoming amendments to the IT Act that gives the government absolute powers to block any website without a hearing or assigning any reasons. He said he could not say if the agency will pursue legal action against the operators of the website. When asked if the agency will give a chance to the owners of the site to defend themselves, he said nobody has come forward so far with such a request. We have taken action under the relevant sections of the IT Act and blocked the site,” he said. “There were several complaints against the site. Vijayaditya, of the CCA, confirmed the development. The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA), a government agency under the Department of Information Technology, is the agency that is entrusted under the IT Act to block websites. According to documents seen by, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has asked all Internet Service Providers to block the website in a communication dated 3 June. India’s government has banned popular toon porn site.
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