Supreme Court holds abuse is uncivil, but not obscene
In a judgment in a land dispute case in which the four-letter expletive was used, the top court says that to qualify as ‘obscenity’, the terms used must be lascivious, should appeal to prurient interests of people, and provoke a tendency to deprave and corrupt people’s minds
· 7/19/2026, 3:21:05 PM· 2 min read
In a judgment in a land dispute case in which the four-letter expletive was used, the top court says that to qualify as ‘obscenity’, the terms used must be lascivious, should appeal to prurient interests of people, and provoke a tendency to deprave and corrupt people’s minds
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