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NEUTRAL CITATION NO. 2023/DHC/001676
speak such foul or profane language. This Court, therefore, holds that
individualism of choice of using such profane language full of
expletives has to give way to the majoritism of people who want to
speak and hear civil language free of expletives for themselves and
for their children.
66.
The argument that the Courts cannot act as moral police and
Courts, therefore, cannot impose choices on people, or that the new
generation does not have a sense of shock and are not disgusted with
such language and therefore, there is no question of having effect of
depraving or corrupting their morals or encouraging lasciviousness,
does not find favour with this Court. The language used in the web
series with a series of vulgar words alleged to be the common spoken
Hindi, the stress on Hindi since the web series in case at hand is in
Hindi language, this Court holds the view that the words used in the
series are not the part of conventional and spoken Hindi language
and the expletives with reference to male and female genitalia and
words and sentences which are necessarily vulgar cannot be
described as ‘Spoken Hindi language’ either by the masses or the
language used in universities and colleges by the youth of this
country.
67.
The youth of this country is the most valuable asset of this
country who carries on its able shoulders, the responsibility of
maintaining the magnificence of the valuable culture including the
linguistic pride of this country, and a web series cannot be allowed to
run unhindered taking shade and safety of arguments that no law
makes it punishable or some people use such language which has
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