The application at the Supreme Court in Kerala tried to ban the sale, circulation and display of the winner of the Booker Award Arundhati Roy “Mother Mary Comes to me” and protesters against his current envelope, showing that the author smokes a cigarette without legal warning.
The bench of the chief judge Nitin Jamdar and Justice Basant Balaji asked the Union of September 18 to inform the court whether there was any agency or a mechanism to deal with these issues, and mention this matter for further hearing on September.
Public interest (Pil) was moved by a lawyer based in Kochi Rajasimhan, who claimed that the image of the covering side sends a “harmful message” of society, especially girls and women, “celebrating” smoking.
The petitioner claimed that “glorifying smoking” by an important author, such as her, is a false belief that such acts “increase intellectual creativity”.
Have a strong influence on youth
The Said Depiction Amounts to Advertisement of the Book and Indirect Advertisement and Promotion Of Girls and Womenfolk Who Are Still Keeping Aloof in the Indian Society from Openly and Publicly Displaying Smoking and Drinking Habits, ”The Petitioner Said, According to Legal News Website Bar and Lavička ..
The petitioner also claimed that the image violates cigarettes and other tobacco products (ban on advertising and regulation of trade and trade, production, supplies and distribution) (COTPA), 2003.
The application stated that the law prohibits both direct and indirect advertising of cigarettes and tobacco products unless accompanied by prescribed legal warnings.
Memoir ‘Mother Mary comes to me’
‘Mother Mary comes to me“It is the first work of Memoir Arundhati Roy, an increasing description of how the author has become a person and a writer who is formed by circumstances, but above all her complicated relationship to an extraordinary singular mother, described as” my shelter and my storm “.
The image, without any legal warning of health, is equal to indirect advertising and promotion of smoking and tobacco products, has also been said.
In addition to the ban on sales, circulation and displaying a book with current covering, he also sought to take all his copies from the market.
She was also looking for a statement that the publication of a book with the current envelope image and without a legal warning “is illegal and violates COTPA”. At the same time, the petitioner explained that his request did not care for the content and essence of the book.
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