The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to prohibit the sale, display, and circulation of Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, over its cover showing the author smoking a cigarette or ‘bidi’. According to PTI, the bench found no violation of the law.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi rejected the appeal filed by Rajasimhan, which challenged a Kerala High Court order that had earlier dismissed a PIL on the issue.

"She is a renowned author. She has not promoted such a thing. There is a warning in the book, and she is a prominent person as well. Why do such a thing for publicity? There is no hoarding in the city with the picture of the book. It is for someone who will take the book and read it. Her picture with it does not

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