The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition challenging a Kerala High Court order that dismissed a plea seeking a ban on the circulation of author Arundhati Roy’s book Mother Mary Comes to Me, with the cover picture showing her smoking a cigarette , reported Live Law .

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that Roy had not promoted or advertised smoking, adding that the viewership of the book was restricted to those who would buy it, Bar and Bench reported.

There was no violation of any law, added the bench.

The book was released on August 28.

Subsequently, the petitioner, a lawyer, filed a public interest litigation in the High Court alleging that the book cover violated the 2003 Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Produc

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