1958 (5) TMI 53

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..... hpur, against his conviction under Section 12 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, for a breach of Section 3 of the Act. 2. The only question for determination in this case is whether a leaflet, which has been held by both the courts below to have been printed in the press of the applicant, is a book within the meaning of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, as it stood i .....

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..... AIR 1955 All 524 (A), was cited. In that case it was held that a notice announcing holding of a public meeting to oppose the transfer of a Deputy Commissioner was neither a book, nor a paper within the meaning of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867. It was laid down that the word 'paper' was intended to cover all those papers which could not be defined as 'books', or .....

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..... matically with a definite subject. The leaflet in question is undoubtedly a composition defaming the two persons named in the heading systematically. I am unable to agree that merely because the subject of composition is defamatory it will be taken out of the definition of treatise . Literary merely means occupied with literature. A literate person is one who has some acquaintance with li .....

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