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Further it is held:

"When the book has been published in the year 1986, for over eight years now, if there is no disturbance of public order, peace or tranquility, we fail to understand as to how the same would arise now. So far as the aspects of decency, defamation or morality to which references are alluded to in the book are concerned, it cannot be read torn-out of context and the entire book will have to be read and understood as to the impact of the same. Merely because a person possesses certain opinion or if any fiction is created on the basis of historical facts, though facts as such may not have distorted but merely subjected to interpretation, those circumstances themselves cannot be termed as inaccurate tending to hurt the feeling of any sections of the community".

And further it is held:

"Each work must be examined by itself and a comparison with other works may not improve the quality of a book which is indecent or obscene. A balance should be maintained between freedom of speech and expression and public decency and morality. It is only when the latter is substantially transgressed, the former must give way. Unless it can be shown that the book is published only with an intention to pandering in sex in a manner appealing to the carnal of human nature, the same cannot be termed as obscene. Court cannot act as censor or authority of public morality or decency. On the question whether the book would amount to defamation or not also, the material put forth by the appellant before the Court is not sufficient".