VERDICTUM.IN 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 CRL.M.C. 2214/2020 & connected matters Page 33 of 41

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