Use of swear words, profanities, vulgar expletives will not amount to obscenity: SC
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SC obscenity ruling
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- Deccan Chronicle Ent·4d agoMere Swear Words Do Not Amount to Obscenity: Supreme Court
Top court rules that abusive or vulgar language alone does not constitute obscenity under Section 294 IPC unless it is lascivious, appeals to prurient interests and causes public annoyance.
Read at Deccan Chronicle Ent → - The Print India·4d agoUse of swear words, profanities, vulgar expletives will not amount to obscenity: SC
New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said that mere swear words, profanities and vulgar expletives, however offensive or uncivil, will not amount to obscenity. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M Pancholi — while hearing a man’s plea challenging a high court…
Read at The Print India → - Hindustan Times India·4d ago‘F-word’ may be offensive, but not obscene: Supreme Court on abusive language
The court used the case to draw a clear legal distinction between obscene speech, which is punishable, and vulgar or abusive speech.
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