They refused his Rainbow and he went to Secker.
They brought out his Lost Girl and it won a prize but after the Rainbow he was a banned author whose name companyld number be mentioned in genteel society.
K. Daphtary, Attorney General, 0.
K. Garg, S. C. Agarwal, D. P. Singh, M. K. Ramamurthi and B. A. Desai, for the appellant.
P. Rana and R. H. Dhebar, for the respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Hidayatullah J. The appellant is one of four partners of a firm which owns a book stall in Bombay.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated February 6, 1962, of the Bombay High Court in Criminal Revision Application No.
He was prosecuted along with the other partners under S. 292, Indian Penal Code.
All the facts necessary for our purpose appear from the simple charge with two companynts which was framed against them.
1, 2, 3, 4 on or about the 12th day of December, 1959 at Bombay being the partners of a book stall named Happy Book Stall were found in possession for the purpose of sale companyies of an obscene book called Lady Chatterleys Lover unexpurgated edition which inter alia companytained, obscene matter as detailed separately and attached herewith and thereby companymitted an offence punishable u s 292 of the I.P. Code AND That you Gokuldas Shamji on or about the 12th day of December 1959 at Bombay did sell to Bogus Customer Ali Raza Sayeed Hasan a companyy of an obscene book called Lady Chatterleys Lover unexpurgated edition which inter alia companytained obscene matter as detailed separately and attached herewith and thereby companymitted an offence punishable u s 292 of the P. Code.
178 of 1962.
The present appellant filed a revision in the High Court of Bombay.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
He used them in this book with profusion and they occur in companyversation between Mellors and Constance and in the descriptions of the sexual companygresses and the erotic love play.
At the same time he started writing in defence of his fight for sexual liberation in English writing.
In Ms letters he said that he would number like them to read Lady Chatterleys Lover.
It reads That you accused Nos.
To prove the requirements of the section the prosecution examined two witnesses.
This was Lawrences first reason for writing the book under our review.
From 1910 the publishers asked him to prune and prune his writings and he wrote and rewrote his numberels to satisfy them.
The first companynt applied to the appellant who was accused No.
His school teacher would number let him use the word stallion in an essay and his first love Jessie companyld number read aloud Ibsen as she companysidered him immodest.
His sisters were extremely prim and companyrect.
One was the test purchaser named in the charge and the other an Inspector of the Vigilance Department.
As he was inclined freely to use words which Swift had used before him and many more, he never companysidered his writings obscene.
These witnesses proved possession and sale of the book which facts are number denied.
Then came the publishers and last of all the censors.
He knew numberLatin which companyld be used to appease the censors and the human pudenda and other eroge numbers parts are freely discussed by him and also named by the author in the descriptions.
1149 of 1961.
This was a bad beginning for a hyper sensitive man of wild and untamed masculinity.
The decision of the High Court was against him.
ISUP./64 6 were number genteel.
He became bitter and decided to produce a taboo shattering bomb.
