Supreme Court of India

Chandrakant Kalyandas Kakodar v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.

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Reported as [1970] 2 S.C.R. 80
Bench S.M. Sikri J.
Decided 25 August 1969

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Obscenity-Tests for determining-Penal Code Sec. 292. The appellant, the author of a short story and the printer and publisher of the story were comicted under section 292 J.P. . on a charge of ob· scenity. Setting aside the conviction this Court, HELD : It is the duty of the Court to consider the article, story or book by taking an overall view of the entire work and to determine whether the obscene passages are so likely to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such influences and in whose hands the book is likely to fall; and in doing so the influence of the book on the social

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