Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1323 · Decided 10 October 2022
N. S. Madhanagopal & ANR. v. K. Lalitha
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1323 · [2022] 15 S.C.R. 649
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1759/2022
- Decided
- 10 October 2022
- Bench
- S. ABDUL NAZEER, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 294(b), 341; CrPC Section 482, 190(1), 204, 156(3), 200
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.294(b), 341 - When not attracted - Verbal altercation between parties on excessive flow of waste water in the society - Complaint filed by respondent for offences u/ss.294(b), 341 - Application filed by appellants for quashing of criminal been averred in the complaint is that the appellant hurled unparliamentary words towards the complainant - s.294(b) talks about the obscene acts and songs - The test of obscenity u/s.294(b) is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those
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