Jodhpur: Rajasthan High Court on September 12 issued notices to editor and publisher of leading magazine 'India Today' and others on a writ petition seeking a ban of its latest issue, covering subject of "sexual fantasies".

A Division Bench of the court, consisting of Justice Rajesh Balia and Justice S K Garg, issued notices to magazine's editor Prabhu Chawla and publisher Arun Poorie besides Living Media Limited, a local book store and state government through the district collector.

Petitioner B D Purohit, an advocate, alleged the issue containing obscene text and photographs, which not only attracted Section 293 (sale of obscene objects to young persons) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), was also against cultural heritage of the country and Directive Principles of the Constitution.

He demanded that the issue be banned and copies already circulated be called back.

PTI