In a strange Indian legal structure, yet another case has come up revealing the untied strings of innumerable Acts and Sections of Indian court book. Recently, the Madras High Court passed a verdict allowing a heinous prisoner to use computer in the jail. The prisoner had filed a petition pleading to be allowed to use computer for his “creative” bend of mind.

Dr. L Prakash, medical surgeon by profession for 15 long years until his arrest, is now serving a life sentence under section 6 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, on the charges of nefarious activities like cyber-pornography and  forcing women into prostitution and trafficking in women.

In December 2001, the “creative doctor” was caught after his online porn racket got exposed when a teenager lodged a complaint with the police of being abducted and forced into acting in a pornographic film.

The domain where he used to upload these banned matters was registered in the US with his associate based abroad.

The Court has not given the permission to use his own computer but he can use the official computer in prison meant for training the prisoners. The court has also asked to monitor his usage of the computer and to keep a close eye on the duration and the content of his usage.

The prison authorities have questioned the verdict saying the immoral cyber criminal is not at liberty to use computer. Further arguing, the authorities have also said that the prison equipments and accessories are not meant for personal communication. 

A division bench of justice D Murugesan and justice V Periya Karuppaiah has ruled out the prison rules saying Prakash has the right to pursue education, acquire knowledge and augment him in the medical field and modern medical facilities cannot be curtailed. 

Convicted under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act for uploading illegal matter on the internet, the court has directed the superintendent of the Puzhal central prison 'supervise and monitor' to judge his intention.

Surprisingly, Prakash claimed that he has already written a narrated ‘Mahabharata’ in English and several others books on varied sensitive topics like religion and self-improvement. X

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