Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 82 · Decided 16 March 1972
Railway Board, GOVT. of India v. M/S Observer Publications (P) LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 82 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 865
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2097/1968
- Decided
- 16 March 1972
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, A.N. GROVER, A.N. RAY, D.G. PALEKAR, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 12, 226
Headnote
Constitution of India Art. 14-Indian Railway Code, Clause 742- iVel~s-weekl,v-Sold by licensees at rai/wc..y bookstalls-Ban on sale of sucll ilews-wPekly-Ban is no1 ju.~·ti{i:Jd under c.'ause 742 sub-clause (V) if. the matter is not found tip be obscene but only bordering not banned-Ban is violative of Art. 14 of Constituiion. The sale of the Indian Observer, a news "v-eekly, at railway platform5 was bunn-ed by an order of the appellant board in March 1965. The respondent \Vho was owner '3Ild publisher of the lndian Obse~r filed a writ petition in the
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