Thursday, June 10, 2010

BLUE FILM RACKET BUSTED

Youth fooled girl, captured intimate moments on camera

Educated, unemployed youths in Orissa are making quick money by filming obscene videos. The arrest of Ranjit Parida on April 19 from Cuttack for allegedly running a blue film racket has once again proved that how organised groups have been operating in different parts of the state. According to cops, they shoot pornographic videos of local girls and sell them in the local markets or to Websites.

Further investigation is on to find out more about the racket. One more person has been arrested. Cops also stumbled on a large number of locally made pornographic CDs and DVDs at the hideout. Parida, who hails from Jagatsinghpur, has been in the business for long, said the police. Sources said Parida developed physical relation with a girl on the pretext of marriage. During this period, he used to buy costly gifts for her. Gradually he won her confidence. And then, he captured acts of physical intimacy on the camera. He made CDs and circulated them in the market. Shockingly, he has confessed to his crime. He said: “I have prepared the CDs and circulated them in the local market.”

Some locals said that the racket had been operating for long in the area. Moreover, they caught hold of Parida and later handed him to the police. The victim girl’s family members also played an important role in Parida’s arrest. After coming to know about the incident, they trapped the accused.

It was in August 2008 that for the first time such a kind of racket was busted in the state. A girl in the city committed suicide after a pornographic CD featuring her was circulated in the market. The victim was a Mass Communication student. The 2008 incident is still fresh. In that incident, the main accused, Astaranga Sahoo, had captured his intimate moments with his lover with a hidden camera. He was helped by some of his friends. Later on they sold the video clip to vendors.

Since then, many youths have been arrested for their involvement in such crimes. One month later, the police busted another blue film racket. Some 24 minors were rescued from Bhubaneswar in September. Two persons were also arrested for filming nude pictures of a girl in Jajpur in October last year. Later, the same year, another obscene CD racket was busted in Niali of Cuttack district. The police had unearthed a pornographic CD racket and arrested the photo studio owner Sheikh Kamran, who was allegedly involved in making and marketing of obscene CDs.

Investigators said in this case too, a youth befriended a local girl. Then he promised to marry her. After winning her confidence, he recorded their private moments. After that, he approached Kamran to burn the CDs. Once it was ready, the video clippings were circulated by a code name “NialiXXX”. However, the cops busted the racket by arresting the youth and his accomplices.

Experts who have been following such incidents said that despite the cops taking action against such people, the incidence of crime has not come down. The worrying point is that more and more educated, unemployed youths are lured to commit this crime.

For these wayward youths, this is the easiest way to make quick money. Talking to TSI, police commissioner, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Bijaya Sharma said: “Lack of stringent cyber law stops cops from taking adequate action against the culprits. Still we work overtime to bust such rackets in the state.”

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IIPM Editorial, 2009


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