Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 784 · Decided 5 September 2018
N. Radhakrishnan @ Radhakrishnan Varenickal v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 784 · [2018] 11 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 904/2018
- Decided
- 5 September 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(2)
Headnote
Constitution of India - Art.19(2) - Freedom of speech and expression - Imposition of reasonable restriction - Petitioner seeking issuance of writ to ban the novel named 'Meesha' - Allegation that the said literary to the temple going women and has the potentiality to disturb the public order, decency - Held: If books are banned on such allegations, there can be no creativity - Such interference by constitutional courts would lead to end of art - Freedom enjoyed by an author is not
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