Fri, 19 September 2025

16:11

A plea has been filed in the Kerala High Court urging it to prohibit sale, circulation and display of Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's book -- 'Mother Mary Come to Me' -- with its present cover where she is shown smoking a cigarette without the statutory health warning.

A bench of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Basant Balaji on Thursday asked the central government to inform the court whether there was any agency or mechanism to deal with such issues and listed the matter for further hearing on September 25.

The public interest litigation (PIL) was moved by a Kochi-based lawyer, Rajasimhan, who has contended that the cover page image sends out a "damaging message" to society, especially to girls and women, by "glorifying" the act of smoking. -- PTI

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