VERDICTUM.IN NEUTRAL CITATION NO. 2023/DHC/001676 the impressionable minds and the words spoken represent and conjure prurient thoughts. Such content and its availability to the public at large cannot be weighed or seen in the context of tolerance of the community who has been tolerating use of such expletives in spoken language by few in public to some extent. 53. The fluency with which the profane language is spoken, full of expletives, is being projected as if it is the general spoken language. If the argument of the petitioner is accepted, it will amount to holding that a language fluent in profanity and expletives is the ‘new in’ and the ‘new normal language’ and ‘expletive free language’ is the new abnormal’. 54. This Court, however, notes that the good old Hindi or any other Indian language does not need liberation from their goodness, and the civil society does not need liberation from civility and pride in speaking expletive free languages and mother tongues. 55. Interestingly, it was one thing to have argued that the language spoken in the web series is not profane, and it was another that it could not even be played in the Court to pass the test of a common man for the sheer obscenity of it. The original civility of languages of this country have outlasted many years of changes and are sure to stay here through the young generation as well, as it has through centuries. It will not be corrupted by exposure of the impressionable minds to such profanity in such web series. 56. The language and the importance given to languages will be clear from another fact that the International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21st February every year. The importance, sanctity CRL.M.C. 2214/2020 & connected matters Page 28 of 41

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