The Kerala High Court on Thursday orally questioned an advocate for filing a PIL against author Arundhati Roy 's book Mother Mary Comes To Me , which features a cover image of the author smoking, without considering the disclaimer on smoking printed on the back cover, as reported by LiveLaw.

The Court was hearing the petition, which sought a stay on the book's sale in the absence of a statutory health warning.

During the hearing, the division bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Basant Balaji pointed out to the petitioner that he hadn’t even presented the book before the court. In response, the petitioner explained that he had visited a bookstall and taken a photograph of the cover, LiveLaw reported. New Delhi: This file photo shows the cover page of Booker Prize-

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