ORDER :- Leave to amend, Amendment to be carried out forthwith.

2. This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution is filed by a social worker who is the 1st petitioner and by the author of a book entitled "Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy" (I am Nathuram Godse speaking) who is the 2nd petitioner. The petition challenges an order, dated 15-5-2000 passed by the Commissioner of Police, Thane by which he has prohibited the performance before a private audience of a reading of the play, described in the petition as an "emoted" reading, which is to take place on 19-5-2000 at 9 p.m. at Gadkari Rangayatan, Thane. The Police Commissioner in passing the aforesaid order has relied upon a Notification issued on 3-12-1998 by the Government of Maharashtra by which, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 95 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Government of Maharashtra declared that every copy, including the manusript, or any other form of the play in Marathi and the translation thereof in Gujarati or any other languages shall be forfeited to the Government. Apart from the aforesaid, a prohibitory order has been passed under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Co

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