Today, the Delhi High Court collaborating with Delhi Police has launched “cyber awareness interactive videos” for children. 

The Court also organised an awareness workshop on “online child sexual exploitation and abuse”. 

Supreme Court judge, Justice PS Narasimha Rao is the Chief Guest of the event. Along with him, Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and other judges of the Delhi High Court were also present.

To regulate and monitor the progress of guidelines under the POCSO Act, the committee was formed comprising, Justice Mukta Gupta, Justice Yogesh Khanna, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, Justice Gaurang Kanth and Justice Saurabh Banerjee

Delivering the welcome address, Justice Mukta Gupta, the head of the committee said that the workshop and Delhi High Court’s initiative of launching the interactive videos are founded on the idea of protecting the children from “anything that threatens to take away their optimism and innocence.”

“The advent of the Internet has revolutionized the way people perceive, think and act. The unimaginable has become the new normal. The impossible has become the routine. This however, is not without risks. Over the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the digitization of professional social and personal interaction, including communication for education all over the world at an unprecedented scale, with physical schools having resumed India as a society is left with a strong realization that the online presence of children need for education or socialization will only increase with time it becomes more imperative tools are developed to safeguard computers on the internet,” she said.

Chief Justice Sharma and Justice Siddharth Mridul also delivered keynote and special addresses. The vote of thanks was delivered by Justice Saurabh Banerjee.