The Supreme Court on Friday (December 5, 2025) dismissed a petition accusing author Arundhati Roy and her publisher Penguin Random House India (Hamish Hamilton) of glamorising tobacco use by featuring a photograph of her with a beedi on the front cover of her book Mother Mary Comes to Me to promote the work.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said neither the author nor the publisher required the photograph to advance the book in the m
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