Anantapur turns into a hub for porn material

Anantapur district has turned into a hub where pornographic CDs and DVDs are easily available.

District police, who recen-tly launched a crackdown on internet centres after receiving orders from police top brass, failed to raid nerve centres where largescale obscene CDs are piled up in several CDs shops.

Anyone can purchase pornographic movies with utmost ease at the busy Kamalanagar area and Srikantam circle in Anantapur city. Youth and middle aged persons are addicted to these as CDs are easily available for Rs 30. The illegal trade is also flourishing in Kadiri, Tadipatri, Puttaparthi and Hindupur.

City two town police raided Excellent internet centre at the municipal complex and seized more than 1,000 pornographic movies stored in a computer a week ago.

They registered a case under IPC sections 292, 294 against the shop owner and sent him to police remand. However, the accused is a small fish in this racket.

The trade is unabated in the district as is evident with a bank field officer, who shot pornographic videos of Self Help Group women in his cellphone when they approached him for bank loans, shared those videos with a CD shop owner for making business in Vajrakaroor. However, police busted the racket and registered a case against him.

According to sources, traders are secretly shooting college girls and prostitutes’ pornographic videos and putting these up for sale in Kadiri.

People allege that police are not paying attention on this illegal trade due to bribes.

Two town circle inspector Mr A. Srinivasulu, said that raids would be conducted on CD shops if higher officials ordered him to do so.