Indian authorities are cracking down on the sexual exploitation of children by webcam girls who use them for porn and webcam chat.
The country has around 25,000 webcam girls working in prostitution and sex work.
Indian authorities have issued a notice to several Indian porn studios seeking to revoke their licenses to operate, but some operators are appealing against the move.
“There are a lot of legal loopholes that are left open by the police,” Pornhub India’s co-founder and CEO Ashish Mehta told the BBC.
“We are aware of several cases where porn studios are trying to take advantage of these loopholes and exploit these girls.”
What we need to do is make sure that we take action to ensure that there is no exploitation going on in the sex industry.”
A spokesperson for the Indian National Police told the AFP news agency that the country’s criminal law only covers commercial sex, which is illegal under the countrys anti-prostitution law.”
In the case of exploitation, such as pornography, the law deals with the exploitation of minors by means of force or threat of force.
It is not about prostitution and is not applicable to child pornography,” the spokesperson said.”
However, it does provide a mechanism to prosecute such cases.
In case of a child exploitation case, the child has to have been exploited by an adult person.”
The spokesperson added that Indian law does not specifically mention child porn, but pornography involving minors is illegal in India.
An estimated 30% of the country�s webcam girls are prostituted, according to the country���s National Crime Records Bureau.
The website Pornhub was launched in India by Mehtra in 2014, after his father was killed in a car crash.
It is important that parents don�t allow their children to access porn and to protect their children from exploitation.””
Pornhub has become a safe space for Indian children to escape the porn industry,” Mehtar told the AP news agency.
“It is important that parents don�t allow their children to access porn and to protect their children from exploitation.”