{"id":122365,"date":"2026-07-18T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/using-abusive-language-swearing-dont-count-as-obscenity-under-ipc-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:36:11","slug":"using-abusive-language-swearing-dont-count-as-obscenity-under-ipc-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/using-abusive-language-swearing-dont-count-as-obscenity-under-ipc-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Using abusive language, swearing don&#8217;t count as obscenity under IPC: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court clarified that abusive language is not obscenity under law.  Mere swear words and profanities do not constitute an offense.  The court set aside a conviction for using abusive slurs during an altercation.  Obscenity requires a lascivious element appealing to prurient interests.  Such words must also cause annoyance to others in public places.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court clarified that abusive language is not obscenity under law. Mere swear words and profanities do not constitute an offense. The court set aside a conviction for using abusive slurs during an altercation. Obscenity requires a lascivious element appealing to prurient interests. Such words must also cause annoyance to others in public places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":122366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}