Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 378 · Decided 5 April 2007
Manzar Sayeed Khan v. State of Maharashtra and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 378 · [2007] 4 S.C.R. 907
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 491/2007
- Decided
- 5 April 2007
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA, D.K. JAIN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 153, 153A, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-ss. 153, 153A and 34-Publication of a book-Due to some objectionable portion thereof, public unrest-FIR against the author, publisher and printer-Writ Petition seeking quashing of FIR-Stay of C . investigation-Pursuit for compromise-Compromise having failed, vacation of stay order held: In the facts of the case, the act of the author, publisher and printer would not attract penal consequences under the provisions-The intention to cause disorder or incite the people to violence is the sine qua nonfor the offence uls 153A-The book D was purely a scholarly pursuit-An FIR can
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