Giving a contemporary interpretation to the 154-year-old 'obscenity' provision in Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court has ruled that a woman's nude picture in a publication could not per se be termed obscene under IPC or Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.

"A picture of a nude or semi-nude woman, as such, cannot per se be called obscene unless it has the tendency to arouse the feeling or revealing an overt sexual desire," ruled a bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri.


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