Mumbai Court Dismisses Plea Filed Against Shilpa Shetty In 2007 Kissing Incident With Hollywood Actor Richard Gere

Mumbai: A classes courtroom right here on Monday dismissed a petition filed in opposition to a Justice of the Peace’s order discharging Shilpa Shetty within the 2007 obscenity case over Hollywood star Richard Gere kissing her at a public occasion. The revision software in opposition to the Justice of the Peace courtroom’s order was dismissed by extra classes choose S C Jadhav. The detailed order, nonetheless, was not obtainable as but. 

The kissing incident had taken place throughout an AIDS consciousness programme held in Rajasthan and had hit nationwide headlines, with some segments calling it obscene and an affront to the nation’s tradition. A case was registered in Rajasthan in opposition to Gere and Shetty below varied sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Information Technology Act. This case was transferred to Mumbai on the orders of the Supreme Court in 2017. 

In January 2022, the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom discharged Shetty after observing that she gave the impression to be the sufferer of Gere’s act. On the allegation that she didn’t protest when she was kissed, the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom had stated “this by no stretch of the imagination makes her a conspirator or perpetrator of any crime”. 

However, the prosecution filed a revision software earlier than the classes courtroom claiming the Justice of the Peace “erred in discharging the accused” and that the order was “illegal, bad in law and against the principle of natural justice” and deserves to be put aside. 

As per the prosecution, prima-facie a case was made out to border fees in opposition to the accused and that the Justice of the Peace must have considered that act of the accused/respondent to kiss or enable to be kissed in public positively got here throughout the purview of Obscene Act. Shetty’s response, filed via advocate Prashant Patil, had stated the Justice of the Peace courtroom’s order was “well-reasoned and based upon the guidelines of the Supreme Court” and, therefore, the revision software must be dismissed with heavy prices.