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c) It is stated that Mr. Singhal involved the minor son of the Petitioner in various sexual acts as well. Consequently, the Petitioner lodged a complaint against Mr. Singhal at the Lajpat Nagar Police Station, and on the basis of the same, a Zero FIR was registered with the investigation thereafter being transferred to Gurugram. It is stated that on multiple occasions, Mr. Singhal threatened the Petitioner that he would leak her sexually explicit photographs on various pornographic websites and that he would kill her son if she did not pay huge amounts of money to him. Consequently, the Petitioner was extorted into Neutral Citation Number: 2023:DHC:2806 paying lakhs of money to Mr. Singhal, along with handing him all her jewellery.

―3. That the Ministry of Home Affairs has launched Cybercrime Reporting Portal (www.cybercrime.gov.in) a central platform, to facilitate the victims/complainants to report all types of cybercrime complaints online.
4. That this portal allows citizens to lodge complaints pertaining to online Child Pornography (CP) - Child Sexually Abuse Material of sexually explicit contents such as Rape/Gang Rape (CP/RGR) content other cybercrimes. The citizens have an option of reporting complaints anonymously when the complainants do not want to disclose their identity.
―5. It is submitted that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as "MEITY") is the custodian of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as "IT Act, 2000") and Rules framed thereunder.
6. It is submitted that the IT Act, 2000 contains provisions under Sections 66E, 67 and 67A, under Chapter XI thereof for violation of bodily privacy, publishing or transmitting obscene material and publishing or transmitting sexually explicit material in electronic form respectively. It is further submitted that Section 67B of the IT Act, 2000 provides for punishing the publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act in electronic form.
67B. Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form.-
Whoever,-
(a) publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted material in any electronic form which depicts children engaged in sexually explicit act or conduct;