Bengaluru: Sex toys from various types, including dildos and dolls, has accumulated at Bengaluru Yarn Godown after being confiscated over the past three years.
It has reached the Foreign Post Office (FPO) because many Bengalureans import them through purchases in foreign portals who are not aware of the laws that prohibit importing toys that resemble parts of the human body.
With an e-commerce portal, including a foreign website, selling various items with delivery offers to India, online buyers in Bengaluru have tried their luck in buying sex toys.
Some of the foreign e-commerce websites exclusively sell sex toys offer a variety of toys for men and women.
It is equipped with a large price label and additional shipping costs but land law takes courses when the product reaches a foreign post office here through air courier packages.
“I bought a $ 140 dildo from the Dutch portal in mid-2019 and was sent to a foreign post office in Chamarajpet.
When I went to take it, I was told by customs officials that it was illegal in India to import sex toys and a piece would be confiscated.
This is not warned By me by the seller, “said a resident of Banakakari, who wanted to be identified as just as Sid.
The young man, like many Bengalureans, did not realize that Section 11 Sub-Part 2 (U) from Customs in 1962, prohibited the import and export of sex toys.
Indian criminal code (part 292) imports of obscene goods including sex toys, literature, video film or negative photography.
The latest victim of the law, which is considered a lot of Draconian, is Shirley (name changed) from Mathiker which imports various goods from the famous US portal.
“I received a call from the post office that there were some unpleasant content in the parcel I ordered and it would be confiscated.
I don’t know who became very angry with my personal choice,” he said.
The source with the FPO Chamarajpet said the various sex toys had accumulated in Customs Godown after seizures, especially from individual importers.
“It is unfortunate that these people do not know about the law and import very expensive sex toys.
Some people have taken their anger to us because they did not release their purchases, but the law opposed it,” said a customs official.
He added that there was no data available on the number of items confiscated but there had been a post-covid surge.
With the sex toys confiscated now occupy the main part of failure, Bengaluru Customs Sleuths in accordance with the protocol, plans to approach the judge for the court order to destroy them, added the source.