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Which one of the following Supreme Court decisions is NOT associated with the constitutional validity…

"Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra" (1965) concerned the test of obscenity for the sale of obscene books — now governed by Section 294 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,…

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Which one of the following Supreme Court decisions is NOT associated with the constitutional validity of criminalising adultery (an offence omitted in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023), and instead concerns the offence of obscenity (now governed by Section 294 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023)?

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"Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra" (1965) concerned the test of obscenity for the sale of obscene books — now governed by Section 294 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 292 IPC) — whereas Yusuf Abdul Aziz v. State of Bombay (1954), Sowmithri Vishnu v. Union of India (1985), and Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018) all dealt with the constitutional validity of criminalising adultery (formerly Section 497 IPC, which was struck down in Joseph Shine and omitted in the BNS).

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