Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 267 · Decided 14 December 1979
Rajkapoor S/O Prithviraj Kapoor v. Laxman S/O Kishanlal Gavai
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 267 · [1980] 2 S.C.R. 512
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 773/1979
- Decided
- 14 December 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 79, 292; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
• Ind;a11 Penal Code I 860 (45 of 1860), Ss. 79 and 292 Cinematograph l, Act 1952-S. 5A(lA)-Cinen1a film granted censor certificate for public e:chi' .. bitiou-Complaint for posecution of producer that film is obscene, corrupts · -~ ~ public n1orals-Such prosecution whether S. 79. Section 79 I.P.C. provides that nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law in doing it, or, who by reason of a mistake of fact in good faith, believes himself to be· justified by law, in doing it. The respondent-complainant alleged that the film
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