PTI

Chennai, Feb 7: A Fast Track Court on Thursday sentenced city-based orthopaedician Dr L Prakash to life and three others to seven years rigorous imprisonment in a cyber-porn case.

The FTC Judge, R Radha, who convicted all the four on Wednesday, also imposed a fine of Rs 1.27 lakh on Prakash, the main accused in the case, and Rs 2,500 each on his three associates, Saravanan, Vijayan and Asir Gunasingh.

The judge while awarding life term to Prakash observed that considering the gravity of the offences committed by the main accused, maximum punishment under the Immoral Trafficking Act (life imprisonment) should be given to him and no leniency should be shown.

The judge sentenced Prakash under the Immoral Trafficking Act, IPC, Arms Act and Indecent Representation of Women (Prevention Act) among others. The judge said the sentences would run concurrently. Prakash was arrested in December 2001 on charges of posting obscene pictures of women on the Internet with the help of his brother in the US.