Legal Provisions of Section 293 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Sale, etc., of obscene objects to young person:
This section punishes sale etc. of obscene objects to young persons. It says that whoever either sells, or lets to hire, or distributes, or exhibits, or circulates to any person who is less than twenty years old any such obscene object as is referred to in section 292 of the Code, or offers or attempts so to do, shall be punished, while being convicted for the first time, with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to three years, and with fine extending up to two thousand rupees, and, while being convicted on subsequent occasions, with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to seven years, and also with fine extending up to five thousand rupees.
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The section requires a sale, letting to hire, distribution, exhibition or circulation of any such object as has been mentioned in section 292 of the Code, or offering or attempting to do so. Such an act must be done to any person who has not yet attained the age of twenty years. Vitiating or corrupting the mind of a youth has been treated more severely by the section, and all the more so when a person is being sentenced for the second or subsequent convictions.
The offence under this section is cognizable, bailable and non-compoundable, and is triable by any magistrate.