Supreme Court of India
N. S. Madhanagopal & Anr. v. K. Lalitha
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What the Court ordered
In the result, the impugned order is set aside and the criminal proceedings of STS No. 566 of 2018 pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Alandur, Tamil Nadu are hereby quashed.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.294(b), 341 – When not attrac ted – Verbal altercation between parties on excessive flow of waste water in the society – Complaint filed by respondent for offences u/ss.294(b), 341 – Application filed by appellants fo r quashing of criminal proceedings, rejected by High Court – On ap peal, held: All that has been averred in the complaint is that the appellant hurled unparliamentary words towards the complainant – s.2 94(b) talks about the obscene acts and songs – The test of obscenity u/s.294( b) is whether the tendency of the matter charged as ob scenity is to deprave
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