High Court's Crucial Verdict On What Is Obscenity!

At a time when what women wear gets debated and questioned, a High Court made some key comments. Hearing a petition the High Court said a few things cannot be termed as obscenity and the Police cannot define what is obscene and what not is.

These comments were made by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court while hearing a petition. The two-judge bench comprising Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes said that Short skirts and provocative dance are not obscene and they cannot be termed obscene.

Going into details, earlier this year the Nagpur Police raised two resorts based on the information that dances are held. After reaching the resorts, the cops reportedly found that a few women were dancing and wearing short dresses.

A First Information Report (FIR) was also registered with a few people getting arrested. Now the case reached the High Court and the bench made these comments and said that short dress and dances cannot be termed as obscene.

"Wearing short skirts, dancing provocatively, or making gestures that the police officials consider obscene," the bench said during the arguments. Having said that the bench also maintained that Section 294 (obscenity) of the Indian Penal Code cannot be applied in the situation.

The bench said that what happened in the resort cannot be seen as obscene and if it had happened in a public place then it would have been a different case. Just because a police officer said it is obscene we cannot consider the same.

Having said that the dances and dress the women wore cannot be seen as obscenity, the bench of the High Court also quashed the FIR giving a big relief to people who were arrested by the cops in connection with this.