public decency and morality and is not likely to
pander to lascivious, prurient or sexually precocious minds. The
petitioner further submits that in order ... electronic form, any material which is lascivious or
appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to
tend to deprave
electronic form, any material which is
lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to
tend to deprave ... electronic form should be "lascivious" or appeals to the prurient
interest or it tend to deprave or corrupt persons who are likely, having
Whether dissemination of material
which is "lascivious or appeals to the
prurient interest" by way of Compact
Disks would attract Section
must be in a sense lascivious, or it
must appeal to the prurient interest or will deprave and corrupt the
hearers ... must be in a sense lascivious, or it
must appeal to the prurient interest, or will deprave and corrupt
stated to have sent the Petitioner
numerous WhatsApp chats and photographs of prurient
nature of the deceased, allegedly sent by the deceased to
Prashant Singh ... accept documents from the accused. Even after the police
had received the prurient photographs of the deceased, it
never carried out any investigation to examine
lascivious (i.e. expressing or causing
sexual desire); or
• Appeals to the prurient interest (i.e.
excessive interest in sexual matters); or
• If its effect
electronic form,
any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient
interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave
sense lascivious, or it must be appeal to the prurient interest, or will
deprave or corrupt persons.
17. As rightly contended by the learned counsel
minds of hearers and that it has aroused lascivious and
prurient interest in the minds of the hearers and in the absence of
such allegations
victim
to strangers and she was asked to accede to their prurient pleasures.
However, she refused. She made a hue and cry when the petitioner
