The Karnataka High Court said, “Watching child pornography is the allegation; even if the FIR is after 10 years",While refusing to cancel a criminal case registered against a 26-year-old man from Bihar, charged with allegedly watching and uploading obscene videos of children on Facebook, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday said, “These are offences against society and unpardonable.”Though the petitioner, Shyam Praveen Singh, submitted that the complaint against him was registered only in 2025, five years after the alleged incident, Justice Nagaprasanna refused to accept the contention.The judge said, “The said submission is said to be rejected as uploading of obscene videos of a child and keeping it there or even storing it in a phone is an offence under section 67B (of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000) albeit prima facie.”Singh had approached the court to cancel the suo motu First Information Report (FIR) filed against him by the Whitefield police station in November 2025.Also read | Is it illegal to watch child pornography? Supreme Court hears petitionThe police had found that Singh’s phone number was linked to the Facebook account that had uploaded the alleged child pornography videos on April 29, 2020, and the material continued to be available on social media.The court said, “Watching child pornography is the allegation; even if the FIR is after 10 years, I will entertain it; five years is nothing.”Also read | Use of children in pornographic materials matter of serious concern: Supreme CourtDismissing the petition, the court said, “The matter has to be investigated into, and cannot be terminated at this nascent stage; permitting investigation in the case at hand, the petition stands dismissed.”