A newly amended Information Technology Act has emerge as a warning for the people visiting ‘porn sites’, as browsing child porn online, will now become punishable under the IT Act.

Under the previous law, publishing and transmitting child pornography was subject to punishment by law.

The new bill has added up a new clause that makes surfing, transferring (downloanding) and viewing material showing children in an obscene or indecent or sexually explicit manner punishable under the law.

The new law can put the people, who are booked under the new Act, behind bars for five years or have to a hefty fine of Rs 10 lakh.

The bill is now waiting for the Presidential assent.

Section 67 of the subsisting act deals with "publishing obscene information in electronic form", but does not specifically mention ‘child pornography’ anywhere.

But, Section 67 of the subsisting act will now be amended.

Now, Child pornography is not even named, but the revised avatar, Section 67B, proposes specifically to penalize involvement in sexually explicit content that depicts children.

It will also be a crime to “cultivate, entice or induce children to have an online relationship with other children for a sexual act.”

Cybercrime experts think that once the bill gets introduced it will have a huge positive impact.