State Cannot Thrust Its Own Notions Of Morality On Society: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

17 Jan 2019 4:55 PM IST

"A practice which may not be immoral by societal standards cannot be thrusted upon the society as immoral by the State with its own notion of morality and thereby exercise 'social control'"

While relaxing the stringent conditions imposed by the Government for getting license for dance bars, the Supreme Court observed that State cannot thrust its own notion of morality on the society. The bench comprising Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan considering the submissions about 'morality' made by the Maharashtra State Counsel Senior Advocate Shekhar Naphade, examined...

State Cannot Thrust Its Own Notions Of Morality On Society: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

"A practice which may not be immoral by societal standards cannot be thrusted upon the society as immoral by the State with its own notion of morality and thereby exercise 'social control'"

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