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
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
employee which is against moral sanctions
and does not withstand test of decency and modesty not
amount to sexual harassment? Is physical contact with ... that his acts against Miss X did not withstand the test of
decency and modesty. He, therefore, held the charges
levelled against the respondent
Civil
and Political Rights, makes any change in the prevailing
standards of decency and human dignity. The International
Covenant does not outlaw capital punishment ... death penalty for the offence of murder. The
prevailing standards of human decency are also incompatible
with death penalty. The standards of human decency with
security of the State, friendly relations with
foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to
contempt of court, defamation or incitement ... under the heads of public order, defamation, incitement to an offence and
decency or morality.
21. Under our constitutional scheme, as stated earlier
jail offences are not laws when judged from the
evolving standards of decency and present concept of
civilization. When bar fetters are to be used
Code for alleged punitive
prurience moral depravity and shocking erosion of public
decency of the film Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram, the
Metropolitan Magistrate recorded the statement ... given time and
clime, so breaches public morals or depraves basic decency
as to offend the penal provisions. A view of the film may
tell
implement the
agnatic theory of succession; (iv) to promote public and
private decency; (v) to facilitate tenants to acquire
ownership rights; (vi) to reduce litigation ... Avoidance of fragmentation of holdings, promotion
of private and public decency and reduction of litigation do
not seem to have any relevance to the right
