Chapter XIV (Of
Offences affecting the Public Health, Safety,
Convenience, Decency and Morals).
17.7 Chapter Headings and sub headings provide a guide
to interpreting
comprehends more than merely sexual conduct and encompasses as well common decency, cleanliness of mind and body, honesty, truthfulness and proper respect for established ideals ... encompasses more than sexual conduct but relates as well to common decency, cleanliness of mind and body, honesty, truthfulness, and proper respect for established ideals
that the conduct of the state officers offended the "sense of decency" and that it was "brutal" and "offensive ... conduct did not comport with traditional ideas of fair play and decency. This argument was not accepted by a majority of the Supreme Court
expression and its reasonable control with the limits of
‘public order, decency or morality’. Here, social
dynamics guides legal dynamics in the province of
‘policing ... Mathrubhumi’ has
the proclivity and potentiality to disturb the public order, decency
or morality and it defames the women community, all of which
are grounds
security of the State, friendly
relations with foreign States, public order, decency or
morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation
or incitement ... security of the State, friendly relations
with foreign States, public order, decency, morality,
sovereignty and integrity of India or incitement to an
offence. The expression
security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement ... security of the State, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of Court, defamation or incitement
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 ... balance should be maintained between freedom of speech and expression and public decency and morality. It is only when the latter is substantially transgressed
such female shall be carried out or made with strict regard to decency.
(5) Resistance to production before a registered medical practitioner as aforesaid
erection or fixing of such poster is not likely to offend
against decency or morality. A permission under this
section] [may be granted or renewed ... erection
or fixing of such poster is not likely to offend
against decency or morality. No permission under
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wage and
minimum wage. These terms, or their variants, the
comfort or decency level, the subsistence level and
the poverty or the floor level, cannot ... maintain the wearer's instinct of self-
respect and decency, some insurance against
the more important misfortunes -- death,
disability and fire -- good education
