The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea challenging the Kerala High Court order , which dismissed a PIL against Arundhati Roy' s book 'Mother Mary Comes To Me', where she is seen smoking a bidi on the book cover.

The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi heard the matter.

The High Court, while dismissing the plea filed by a lawyer, observed that the publisher of the book had already mentioned a disclaimer on the back of the book cover that the cover image was not an endorsement of tobacco use.

At the outset, Sr Adv Gopal Kumaran , appearing for the petitioner, argued that the cover picture shows her smoking a bidi without the exact statutory warning that 'Smoking is injurious to health' or 'Tobacco causes cancer'. He also pointed out that it's not certa

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