Does sending obscene & abusive statements in chat room of some site cause violation of ITact India?see details

Question

If some people send obscene & abusive statements in some chat room of some website which are open to all the visiters of that chat room..
and if some visiters also send words like they are enjoying that procedure in that chat room ......
will not that be violation of Information Technology Act of India section 67 (regarding publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form)???
Will not all other visiters enjoying there and also that web site be responsible for abetment or joint liability or group liability of that act in India??

Answer 1

This is a very good question with regards to section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Section 67 clearly provides Publishing of information which is obscene in electronic form. - Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeal to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees.
Here the word used for description of this material has to be Lascivious which means: - is a semi-technical term indicating immoral sexual thoughts or actions. It is often used in the legal description of criminal acts in which some sort of sexual activity is prohibited to differentiate that activity from innocent conduct. It is often used as one of several adjectives to describe pornography as compared to non-pornographic depictions of sex or sexual themes.
In the chat room conversation any material that is obscene or pornographic in nature if transmitted by someone to others, which corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, then definitely the provisions of section67 of the said Act will be applicable in such a case for punishment of the person who commits the transmitting of such material, but the other members of the group just receiving it electronically these material will not be liable as the abettor till they have not encouraged the transmission of such material or done any act that helped in its transmission of such material.

Answer 2

I an Indian living in usa and since i know as a regular chatter i know many many people around the world always use some bad words or sentence.as long as it doesn't hurt to someone personally no one cares and also chat rooms are not reliable source for anything like that or if that statement hurt or damaged in great way then it could be big problem but only website people could take some action and yahoo has no personal responsibility of anything going in chat room.

Answer 3

India is nice and everything but dont worry if the information is seen by a viewer who is india. it doesnt matter. cuz no body care about these things. but be aware that it is not seen by officials.

Answer 4

Then why is yahoo so careless approximately it in mails gained and messages in messenger inviting who would not desire - having request on settings and complaining one thousand circumstances - to them continuously getting basically the automatic replays???????? Excuse me? How am i able to dodge to receive them??????????? I even have bulk lively and nonetheless.................