Supreme Court of India
Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association (ahar) & Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that insofar as throwing or showeri ng coins, currency notes etc. is concerned, the provision is well justified as it aims at checking any untoward incident as the aforesaid Act has tendency to create a situation of indecency.
Judgment, page 87
From the headnote
Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurant and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women (Working therein) Act, 2016 – s.2(8)(i) – Constitutional validity of, challenged on the ground that the expression ‘arouse the prur ient interest of the audience’ is vague, incapable of giving precise meaning thereto – Held: Such plea not accepted for the reas on that in explaining as to what kind of books, pamphlets, pape rs, writings, drawings, paintings, representations, figures or an y other object will be deemed as obscene, s.292 of the IPC itself uses this very expression when
Authorities it was built on
- 1958 Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia v. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Others
- 1970 Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India
- 2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2003 State of Punjab and Anr. v. Mis. Devans Modern Breweries and Anr. Etc.
- 1987 M.P.E.B. & Others v. Smt. Basantibai
- 1975 Govind v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr.
- 2017 Nikesh Tarachand Shah v. Union of India & Anr.
- 1981 Laxmi Khandsari Etc. Etc. v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2006 Director General, Directorate General of Doordarshan and Ors. v. Anand Patwardhan
- 1979 Raj Kapoor and Ors. v. State and Others
- 2013 State of Maharashtra & Anr. v. Indian Hotel & Restaurants Assn. & Ors
- 1986 State of Maharashtra & Anr. v. Basantibal Mohanlal Khetan & Ors.
- 1964 Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra
- 2004 Engineering Kamgar Union v. M/s. Electro Steels Castings Ltd. and Anr.
- 2006 Ajay Goswami v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2003 M.P.A.L.T. Permit Owners Assn. and Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 1996 Pawan Kumar v. State of Haryana and Anr.
- 2016 The State of Tamilnadu Rep. by its Secretary Home, Prohibition & Excise Dept & Ors. v. K. Balu & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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