Obscenity Laws

India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...

Some members of the Islamic missionary sect Tablighi Jamaat, which organised a religious gathering in Delhi linked to hundreds of coronavirus cases, face charges under the National Security Act (NSA) after allegations of assault on nurses and obscene behavior at a hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Describing them as "enemies of humanity", Chief...

A provision of a new Maharashtra Act to regulate obscene dance performances and prohibiting showering of money at dancers today found favour with the Supreme Court, which said the law respected "the dignity of woman and dignify decency and culture".

One of India's most senior lawyers has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports.

Mamta's almost-decade long career, though short-lived, was as tumultous as her personal life, with the actress falling in and out of one controversy after another - she posed topless for a glossy magazine in 1993, was slammed with charges under India's obscenity laws and finally convicted in 2000 thus inviting the wrath of conservative Islamic grou...

Petitioner K Jebakumar, city-based advocate, had sought a direction to state police chief to register an FIR in accordance with law against the IPL-V's Governing Council chairman Rajeev Shukla, BCCI's then President N Srinivasan, celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Salman Khan, US pop singer Katy Perry, Priyanka Chopra, cricketer Douglas ...

The petition said that absence of Internet laws encourage people to watch obscene videos and as it is not an offence.

The Bombay High Court has refused to stay the criminal proceedings against actress Mallika Sherawat pertaining to alleged obscenity in films.

India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...

Some members of the Islamic missionary sect Tablighi Jamaat, which organised a religious gathering in Delhi linked to hundreds of coronavirus cases, face charges under the National Security Act (NSA) after allegations of assault on nurses and obscene behavior at a hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Describing them as "enemies of humanity", Chief...

A provision of a new Maharashtra Act to regulate obscene dance performances and prohibiting showering of money at dancers today found favour with the Supreme Court, which said the law respected "the dignity of woman and dignify decency and culture".

One of India's most senior lawyers has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports.

Mamta's almost-decade long career, though short-lived, was as tumultous as her personal life, with the actress falling in and out of one controversy after another - she posed topless for a glossy magazine in 1993, was slammed with charges under India's obscenity laws and finally convicted in 2000 thus inviting the wrath of conservative Islamic grou...

Petitioner K Jebakumar, city-based advocate, had sought a direction to state police chief to register an FIR in accordance with law against the IPL-V's Governing Council chairman Rajeev Shukla, BCCI's then President N Srinivasan, celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Salman Khan, US pop singer Katy Perry, Priyanka Chopra, cricketer Douglas ...

The petition said that absence of Internet laws encourage people to watch obscene videos and as it is not an offence.

The Bombay High Court has refused to stay the criminal proceedings against actress Mallika Sherawat pertaining to alleged obscenity in films.