Abstract
Sec. 292 reads" For the purpose of Sub. sec (2) book pamphlet......... shall be deemed to be obscene if it is lascivious appeals to the prurient interest or............... the effect.......... .... if taken as a whole, is such as to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely....... to read the matter contained or embodied in it. Judicial interpretation has upheld the Hicken test laid down by Lord Cockburn. "I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hand a publication of this sort may fall"
Recommended Citation
Narrain, Arvind
(1996)
"Obscenity as Defined in Sec. 292, IPC: Do We
Need Such a Concept?,"
National Law School of India Review: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsir/vol8/iss1/4
