Pondicherry

10-01-2002

The unearthing of the pornography racket run by the now disgraced Chennai-based orthopaedic surgeon Prakash and the unravelling of a distinct Pondicherry link to the wide-ranging sleaze business has given a shocking twist to the entire episode: That a lady social worker-cum-socialite motivated youth into take part in orgies and also brain-washed them into posing for the camera.

Besides, it now looks that those who frolicked as pairs and groups before the camera in bathrooms, bedrooms and a modern swimming pool, suspected to be located in a bunglow near Marakkanam, could have been taken for a solid ride by the associates of Prakash with the assurance that their acts were being recorded only for private circulation and not for commericial purposes.

A 20-part ' Picnic ' series of VCDs, which were part of the huge haul of pornography made during a surprise raid on video parlours in Pondicherry recently, had helped in identifying a local female model, who had acted in an x-rated episode, besides a guitarist from Chennai.

Since the macho-musician is said to have taken part in a seminar organised by the hip-looking social worker at Chennai in which post-modernism was the subject of discussion, it is suspected that the meet was also used as a hunting ground for young male and female actors for pornography.

A college lad, who was part of the crowd from various colleges in Pondicherry, had squeaked about the proceedings of the seminar that he found unsavourable. Post-modernism, advocated through the resource persons at the seminar, was used as a motivational tool for the younger generation not to be bogged down by traditional and conventions with a view to making them shed their inhibitions and actively take part in carnal encounters that were also shot with a video camera.

The girls, it is said, were told at the seminar not to be bound by family-ties and marriage but indulge themselves freely in orgies and have sex with multiple partners, which is the natural thing to do a la animals. ' Life is short, make it sweet ' , was the abiding motto of the social worker, who had organised the seminar.

It is suspected that the boys and girls, who willingly took part in the fun sessions under the focus of whirring video cameras, could have been told that their activites were being recorded with a view to motivating more youth groups elsewhere by screening them. Some foreigners were also introduced to the participants of the seminar as students from abroad.

Meanwhile, in Chennai, police have arrested a ward boy in the clinic of Prakash. His pictures were sighted in the seized pornography from the doctor ' s premises and hence his arrest, sources said.