Editing Lady Chatterley's Lover (section)

=== India ===
In 1964, the bookseller Ranjit Udeshi in [[Bombay]] was prosecuted under Section 292 of the [[Indian Penal Code]] (sale of obscene books)<ref>{{cite web | work = Indian penal code | url = http://www.vakilno1.com/bareacts/IndianPenalCode/S292.htm | title = Laws – IPC – Section 292 | publisher = Vakilno 1 | access-date = 14 February 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110518194308/http://www.vakilno1.com/bareacts/IndianPenalCode/S292.htm | archive-date = 18 May 2011}}</ref> for selling an unexpurgated copy of ''Lady Chatterley's Lover''.

''Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra'' (AIR 1965 SC 881) was eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the [[Supreme Court of India]]. Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law on the subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and established important tests of obscenity such as the [[Hicklin test]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.worldlii.org/in/cases/cen/INSC/1964/177.html|title=Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra (1964)|publisher=Worldlii | access-date=14 February 2011}}</ref>

The court upheld the conviction:

{{blockquote|When everything said in its favour we find that in treating with sex the impugned portions viewed separately and also in the setting of the whole book pass the permissible limits judged of from our community standards and as there is no social gain to us which can be said to preponderate, we must hold the book to satisfy the test we have indicated above.}}