Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 202 · Decided 25 August 1969
Chandrakant Kalyandas Kakodar v. The State of Maharashtra and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 202 · [1970] 2 S.C.R. 80
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 170/1967
- Decided
- 25 August 1969
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 292; Constitution
Headnote
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.C. on a charge of ob· scenity. Setting aside the conviction this Court, A B HELD : It is the duty of the Court to view of the entire work and to determine C 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 morality of our contemporary society
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