Moral policing has been a heated topic of discussion over the past few weeks in across all news channels of the country. Though an old topic, but fresh debate was triggered when Mumbai Police, right before Independence Day raided beach resorts across the city and booked couples for indecent behaviour. To be specific, according to the Indian Express, the police registered 54 cases under the Maharashtra (Bombay) Police Act and 13 couples were specifically booked for indecent behaviour. The media, after this incident, immediately went haywire. Prominent anchors and panellists talked about how there has been a breach of ‘Right to Liberty’ as guaranteed by the Constitution and how authorities have breached into the personal space of an individual. This debate was also a succession of the recently invoked and evoked Porn Ban, where in the state decided to curtail what we wanted to see and what not. The entire debate here can be pegged around two broad ideas, the idea of indecency ...