Legality of book-banning

The Hindu: "In the West, book-banning is as old as book-writing. Homer's Odyssey was banned in Rome in the beginning of the First century. Translation of the New Testament by Tyndale was banned in England in the 16th century. So was Martin Luther's translation of the Bible in the 17th century in Germany. Galileo's writings as to the rotundity of the Earth were also destroyed in the 17th century. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was banned by Russia in the 19th century. Henry Ford's My Life and Works was banned in Soviet Russia and so were Dr. Zhivago of Pasternak and Gulag Archipelago of Solzhenitsyn. The long list is still getting longer with myriads of instances. Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has also found place in that list.
The book Dwikhandita has been banned by the State government in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 95 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, which now contains the general law relating to book-banning. "