Supreme Court of India
Chandrakant Kalyandas Kakodar v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.
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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
Where later benches applied it
- 2014 Aveek Sarkar & Anr. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
- 2024 Apoorva Arora & Anr. Etc. v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) & Anr.
- 2016 Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, Ministry of Law & Ors.
- 2015 Devi Das Ramachandra Tuljapurkar v. State of Maharashtra& Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to
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