Samaresh Bose And Anr vs Amal Mitra And Anr on 24 September, 1985
17. This position was later clarified in Samaresh Bose Vs.
Amal Mitra, AIR 1986 SC 967, where the Court held that in
judging the question of obscenity, the judge in the first
place should try to place himself in the position of the
author and from the viewpoint of the author, the judge
should try to understand what is it that the author seeks
to convey and whether what the author conveys has any
literary and artistic value. Judge should thereafter place
himself in the position of a reader of every age group in
whose hands the book is likely to fall and should try to
appreciate what kind of possible influence the book is
likely to have on the minds of the reader.