Revenge porn: Bengal man gets five years in jail

KOLKATA: A court in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district sentenced a 23-year-old man to five years in jail for uploading nude videos of his former lover on pornographic websites. A fine of ₹9,000 was also slapped on him.

This is Bengal CID’s first conviction in cases related to cyber crime, including ‘revenge porn’, a term used to describe sharing of sexually explicit images on the internet with the aim of extorting or humiliating the victims.

According to police, Animesh Bakshi took advantage of his intimacy with the woman, who had in her mobile phone some nude videos she herself had shot. He accessed those videos and started blackmailing her. Following this, the girl decided to end her relationship with Bakshi. This angered him and he uploaded those video clips to various porn sites.