Section 2(2) in Telangana Prevention of Disfigurement of Open Places and Prohibition of Obscene and Objectionable Posters and Advertisements Act, 1997
(2)criticizing any social or religious practice without malicious intentions and with an honest view to promote social or religious reform or social Justice;(f)"place open to public view" includes any private place or building, monument, statue, post-wall, fence, tree or other thing or contrivance visible to a person being in, or passing along, any public place;(g)"poster" means any printed, typed, hand written, cyclostyled or xeroxed matter or design or pictorial representation usually meant to be displayed as a playcard or pasted on any wall, building, hoarding or other place open to public view whether by cinematograph exhibition or otherwise but does not include the exhibition of a cinematograph film inside the auditorium of a cinema theatre;(h)"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;(i)"Public place" means any place (including a road, street or way, whether a thoroughfare or not and a landing place) to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort, or over which they have a right to pass.Chapter - II Prevention of disfigurement of open places
