Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 75 · Decided 3 February 2014
Aveek Sarkar & ANR. v. State of West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 75 · [2014] 2 S.C.R. 263
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 902/2004
- Decided
- 3 February 2014
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 292, 79; CrPC Section 482, 251
Headnote
A B CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973: s.482 - Quashing of proceedings - German magazine published an article with a picture of world renowned Tennis player, posing C nude and covering the breast of his dark-skinned fiancee with his hands which was photographed by none other than her father - The and proclaimed that true love has no boundaries - The article reproduced in Indian magazine and newspaper - Criminal proceedings o under ss. 292, /PC and ulss. 3, 4 and 6 of Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 against the editor and publisher of magazine and newspaper -
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