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[17 September 2007] - The Indian Government has accepted a parliamentary panel’s suggestion that pre-offence “grooming” over the Net should be made a criminal offence. Several countries, including the UK, US and Australia, have already criminalised online “grooming” - a term to describe Internet predators communicating with children online to gain their trust and then coercing them into real-life sexual encounters. The Department of Information Technology has also promised to consider making the sharing of information about websites for downloading pornography a criminal offence. A common strategy used to lead children into believing that exposing themselves is acceptable has been found to be showing movies and images of other children indulging in sexual acts. Further information