Article. The section seeks no
more than the promotion of public decency and morality which
are the words of that clause ... maintained between "freedom of speech
and expression" and "public decency or morality"; but when
the latter is substantially transgressed the former
conformity with the
constitutional scheme. Two of the heads mentioned are :
decency or morality. Thus any law which imposes reasonable
restrictions on the exercise ... this right in the interests
of decency or morality is also saved by clause (2) of
Article 19. Shri Jethmalani contended that the words
`decency
recently enacted a statute regulating obscenity on the internet i.e. Communication Decency Act, 1996 (CDA) which prohibits, knowingly sending or displaying of "patently ... Does the publication...transgress the generally accepted bounds of decency?
...where "[c]ontemporary standards are those currently accepted by the Australian community.... And community
State, friendly relations with foreign states, public order,
decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court,
defamation or incitement to an offence ... libel, slander,
defamation, sedition or any other matter
which offends against decency or
morality or undermines the authority or
foundation of the State.
Proposal introduced
Obscene, adj. (16c) - Extremely offensive under contemporary community
standards of morality and decency; grossly repugnant to the generally
accepted notions of what is appropriate. Under ... poetic; and it is ordinarily restricted to something offensive
to modesty or decency, or expressing or suggesting unchaste or lustful
ideas, or being impure, indecent
Lalit Kumar Modi vs Union Of India & Ors on 27 August, 2014
Author: Badar
security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement ... respondents are said to be in the interest of public order, morality, decency and inducement for committing an offence. We proceed to examine each ground
subject to
reasonable restriction and if the
material is against public decency
and morality and the impugned
material is obscene as per Section ... Century and is in no
manner offensive to public decency and morality and is not likely to
pander to lascivious, prurient or sexually precocious minds
restrictions in Article 19(2) in the interests of 'decency and morality' arise in this case. Question arises as to what ... then was) in L.I.C. VS. Manubhai D. Shah .
IS Decency and Morality" different from Obscenity ?:
(15) As we shall show presently
produced to show that cabaret dances cannot exceed any particular limits of decency or morality or any standards are being maintained ... obscenity may be flexible because Society can never be static. Conceptions of decency and morality may be different from place to place, from time
