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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
A doctor in the capital of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, has been arrested under the cyber-crimes law for allegedly running a pornographic Web site.
The cyber-crimes law came into force a few months back.
The police allege that the doctor, Prakash, took nude pictures of patients, and filmed sexual acts and posted them on his Web site.
The police further allege that the US-based brother of Dr Prakash was acting as a conduit for the pornographic material to be sold in the US.
An orthopaedic surgeon from a traditional Kerala family, Dr Prakash has been practising medicine in the Anna Nagar locality of Chennai for close to 15 years.
He was arrested on the basis of a police complaint registered by a teenager, Ganesh.
According to the police, Ganesh had registered the complaint after seeing his photographs and video-movies in compromising positions on the Web.
A school dropout, Ganesh had fallen for the charms of two college girls, who took him to the doctor's clinic and his private home in another locality of the city, and finally to his little islet, on the outskirts of Chennai.
According to the police, Prakash's wife Lakshmi, a gynaecologist, had fallen out with him because of his porn-business, though she reportedly used to entice young men and women to his farm house, and create situations for them to have sex, and record them with hidden video cameras.
The photographs and the video films were used to blackmail victims, the police said.
Prakash would also reportedly promise that the videocassettes were for private circulation in foreign countries, where the victims would not be identified.
It was reportedly the breach of this promise that seemed to have prompted Ganesh to file a case against the doctor.
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