SC on Book of famous Dalit writer Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu

The book written by famous Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah got no ban from supreme court. SC had refused to ban the controversial book saying every author has a fundamental right to voice ideas freely.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud junked a PIL filed by a lawyer seeking direction to the government to ban the book.

The court said that any request to ban a book has to be strictly scrutinised because “every author or writer has a fundamental right to speak out ideas freely and express thoughts adequately”.

“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 it would be appropriate under Article 32 of the Constitution of India that this Court should ban the book/books.

“Keeping in view the sanctity of the said right and also bearing in mind that the same has been put on the highest pedestal by this court, we decline the ambitious prayer made by the petitioner,” the bench said.