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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on
Thursday ruled that no one had the
poetic license to use a historically
respected person like Mahatma
Gandhi as a character and attribute
obscene words to him in any fiction,
poetry or any type of literary work.
A bench headed by Justice Dipak
Misra said if an author, writer or
poet used historically respected
personalities as fictional characters
than attribution of obscene words
would make him liable to face penal
action.
The court said in such writings
involving historically respected
figures as fictional characters, their
depiction and unwarranted
attribution of obscene words to them
would invite rigorous test of
contemporaneous community
parameters.
The SC upheld framing of charges
against the author who used
Mahatma Gandhi as fictional
character in his poetry and
attributed obscene words to him.
http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Can...to-Mahatma-Gandhi-SC/articleshow/47279065.cms
Thursday ruled that no one had the
poetic license to use a historically
respected person like Mahatma
Gandhi as a character and attribute
obscene words to him in any fiction,
poetry or any type of literary work.
A bench headed by Justice Dipak
Misra said if an author, writer or
poet used historically respected
personalities as fictional characters
than attribution of obscene words
would make him liable to face penal
action.
The court said in such writings
involving historically respected
figures as fictional characters, their
depiction and unwarranted
attribution of obscene words to them
would invite rigorous test of
contemporaneous community
parameters.
The SC upheld framing of charges
against the author who used
Mahatma Gandhi as fictional
character in his poetry and
attributed obscene words to him.
http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Can...to-Mahatma-Gandhi-SC/articleshow/47279065.cms
