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NEUTRAL CITATION NO. 2023/DHC/001676
in the Indian context, keeping in mind the contemporary standards of
civility and morality. The concept of morality differs in every
country and the Courts need not look to the west or any other part of
the world except towards itself in this regard.
43.
Coming back to case at hand, the specific complaint of
petitioner is that in Episode 05 of Season 01, airtime starting from 5
minutes and 24 seconds onwards upto 6 minutes and 40 seconds as
well as from 25 minutes and 28 seconds upto 25 minutes and 46
seconds, the language of male and female protagonist is full of
obscenity, vulgar words and expletives, without there being any
warning or filter imposing restriction of age of viewers to whom the
content should be visible. The language used in Episode 05 of
Season 01 was heard by this Court, and the level of obscenity of the
language and sentences used was such that this Court cannot
reproduce it in the judgment itself for the purpose of adjudication.
The language used in the web series at the abovementioned time
referred to a sexually explicit act in spoken language. It is not just an
expletive, but is profane and vulgar language being used referring to
a sexually explicit act which certainly cannot be termed common or
commonly accepted language. Rather the female protagonist in the
series itself is heard objecting to the male protagonist and expressing
her disgust over use of this language by repeating the same language
herself to the male protagonist. In answer to that, the male
protagonist further uses more vulgar expletives and indecent
language which is bound to disgust a normal prudent man, if heard in
public. Later in the said episode, the female protagonist uses the
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