New Delhi: When an author writes a book, it is his or her right of expression and it cannot be curtailed, the Supreme Court held on Friday and dismissed a writ petition, to ban the Telugu book Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu written by Professor Kancha Ilaiah and further to ban chapter 9 of a book titled “Post-Hindu India“ and chapter 9 of “Hindutv-Mukt Bharat.”
Dismissing a PIL filed by an advocate, a three judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Kanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud said, “We do not intend to state the facts in detail. Suffice it to say that when an author writes a book, it is his or her right of expression. We do not think that the writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution would be appropriate to ban the book/books. Any request for banning a book of the present nature has to be strictly scrutinized because every author or writer has a fundamental right to speak out ideas freely.”
