https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186863 A short story must be assessed for obscenity by reading the work as a whole, not by isolating selected passages, and by asking whether it is so gross as to tend to deprave and corrupt likely readers. The older Hicklin test was considered, but the governing standard required assessment against contemporary Indian standards of public decency and morality and the work's dominant literary setting. The references to love, attraction, kissing and sexual situations were found restrained, not vulgar, and not shown to have a corrupting effect on adolescent or adult readers. The story was therefore not obscene or pornographic, and the conviction under section 292 of the Indian Penal Code could not stand. en-us Mon, 25 Aug 1969 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:08:58 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186863 A short story must be assessed for obscenity by reading the work as a whole, not by isolating selected passages, and by asking whether it is so gross as to tend to deprave and corrupt likely readers. The older Hicklin test was considered, but the governing standard required assessment against contemporary Indian standards of public decency and morality and the work's dominant literary setting. The references to love, attraction, kissing and sexual situations were found restrained, not vulgar, and not shown to have a corrupting effect on adolescent or adult readers. The story was therefore not obscene or pornographic, and the conviction under section 292 of the Indian Penal Code could not stand. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 25 Aug 1969 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186863