Valentines day or not, Public Display of Affection can turn quite dangerous in India! 👀
📍PDA is not a crime in itself but Section 294, IPC says that the law can punish anyone who annoys other people by:
-doing any obscene act in any public place or
-singing, reciting or uttering any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place.
📍Is standing close to one another an ‘obscene act’?
Well the law doesn’t give a detailed definition of what comes under obscenity.
And just because it doesn’t give an explicit definition, it is blatantly misused by the police, public & lower courts to harass couples.
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