In a recent turn of events, the Mumbai Sessions Court struck down the application for criminal review that was registered against Shilpa Shetty, which was related to the obscenity case in 2007 when Richard Gere kissed the actress’s cheeks at a public event. . According to the order, all charges against the actress have been dismissed and the actress was fully cleared.
Mumbai court strikes down obscene conduct plea against Shilpa Shetty in Richard Gere kiss case
In the recent hearing, Additional Sessions Judge SC Jadhav has noted that a woman who is groped or forcibly touched in public cannot be charged and is not subject to any prosecution. Therefore, the court clarified that, in this case, the act of kissing was unilateral without the participation of the actress. The court also reportedly stated in her statement that no obscenity was seen on her part, which does not make her guilty of any kind of public display of vulgarity. The court also addressed the ‘indecent portrayal of women’ allegations, adding that there was no evidence to suggest that Shilpa belittled or slandered a woman’s image.
To the uninitiated, at the said event, which was supposed to be an AIDS awareness social event, Richard Gere had hugged Shilpa Shetty and kissed her on the cheeks, to spread the message that AIDS does not spread to people. through a kiss However, viewers at the event had claimed that the actress clearly seemed surprised by Gere’s gesture. Followed by a legal complaint which was registered in Rajasthan in 2007 under different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the case was later transferred to Mumbai in 2017. Last year, in January, the trial court dismissed the case against Shetty. , but prosecutors challenged the order claiming that Shilpa was aware of the media presence at the event and she did not object to the kiss that makes her part of it.
On the other hand, there were also reports indicating that the complaint was also filed against the American celebrity Richard Gere for the same incident.
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