Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 52 · Decided 17 January 2019
Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association (Ahar) & ANR. v. The State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 52 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 371
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 576/2016
- Decided
- 17 January 2019
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, ASHOK BHUSHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 292, 294; Constitution Article 14, 15, 19(1)(a), 21, 19(1)
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 prurient interest of incapable of giving precise meaning thereto - Held: Such plea not accepted for the reason that in explaining as to what kind of books, pamphlets, papers, writings, drawings, paintings, representations, figures or any other object will be deemed as obscene, s.292 of the IPC itself uses
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