Supreme Court of India
Apoorva Arora & Anr. Etc. v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, we allow the appeals against the judgment of the High Court dated 06.03.2023 in Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2399 of 2020, Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2215 of 2020 and Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 2214 of 2020, and set aside the judgment of the High Court, and quash FIR 403/2023 registered 82 State of Haryana v.
Judgment, page 33
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration Whether the use of expletives and profane language in the titles and content of the episodes of the web-series ‘College Romance’ constitutes an offence of publication and transmission of obscene and sexually explicit content u/ss.67 and 67A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Headnotes Information Technology Act, 2000 – ss.67, 67A – Penal Code, 1860 – s.292 – “obscenity” – Test for – Complaint filed that Season 1, Episode 5 of the web-series ‘College Romance’, titled ‘Happily ****d Up’, had vulgar and obscene language in its title and various portions constituting
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- 2010 S. Khushboo v. Kanniammal and Anr.
- 2004 M/s Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. and Ors. v. Md. Sharaful Haque and Ors.
- 2004 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Goloconda Linga Swamy and Anr.
- 1970 K.A. Abbas v. The Union of India & Anr.
- 2006 Director General, Directorate General of Doordarshan and Ors. v. Anand Patwardhan
- 1988 Ramesh S/o Chotalal Dalal v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2015 Devi Das Ramachandra Tuljapurkar v. State of Maharashtra& Ors.
- 1970 Girdharilal Gupta & Anr. v. D. N. Mehta, Collector of Customs & Anr.
- 2016 Sharat Babu Digumarti v. Govt. of Nct of Delhi
- 1996 Bobby Art International v. Om Pal Singh Hoon and Ors.
- 1964 Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra
- 1985 Samaresh Bose and Anr. v. Amal Mitra and Anr.
- 1969 Chandrakant Kalyandas Kakodar v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2006 Ajay Goswami v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2022 N. S. Madhanagopal & Anr. v. K. Lalitha
- 2003 Union of India v. Rajiv Kumar
- 2023 M/s Us Technologies International Pvt. Ltd v. The Commissioner of Income Tax
- 2018 N. Radhakrishnan @ Radhakrishnan Varenickal v. Union of India and Others
- 2014 Aveek Sarkar & Anr. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
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