Posted on 04/13/2023 12:19:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Indian court has now dismissed a case filed against a magistrate’s order in which Shilpa Shetty was discharged. Shetty had been embroiled in a 2007 obscenity trial because actor Richard Gere kissed her several times during an AIDS awareness public event in Mumbai, India.
After the event, many Hindus protested against Gere’s actions because they went against Indian values. Gere responded by apologising and saying that he had tried to show that kissing does not cause HIV transmission.
In January last year, the obscenity charge against Shetty was dismissed, noting that the charges against Shetty were “groundless”, with her being unwittingly advanced on by Gere. However, a revised prosecution against Gere and Shetty remained, with it claiming that the magistrate had “erred in discharging the accused” and the order had been “illegal, bad in law and against the principle of natural justice”.
Now, that prosecution has also been dismissed, and Shetty and Gere have been cleared of wrongdoing. The court said, “A woman being groped on the street or touched on a public way or in public transport cannot be termed as accused or participative to the extent of mental culpability, and she cannot be held for illegal omission to make her liable for prosecution.”
It added, “Having considered the material placed on record and the police papers, there is no material to frame charges against the accused.” The prosecution had originally claimed that Shetty and Gere should have been charged under IPC Section 292 for obscenity, provisions of the Information Technology Act, and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
Shetty was being represented by Prashant Patil, who made a case against the plea and the consideration of the court order being a “proper and legal one.” The material presented during the case concluded, “The magistrate’s order does not require any interference at the hands of this court,” meaning that the magistrate had correctly assessed the case in the first place.
Richard Gere is known for his film role in movies such as American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear and Runaway Bride and became a sex symbol in the latter part of the 20th Century. Shilpa Shetty is also a film star, although she predominantly performs in Indian Hindi movies, including Baazigar, Main Khiladi Tu Anari and Dhadkan.v
That was a pretty shetty thing for Gere to do.
Her name sounds like it’d be a mascot for a laxative. LOL
Glad that has been resolved. It’s would have been bothering me to no end for the last 16 years had I known about it. 🙂
True, I swear: the lady who does my better half’s taxes is named “Preeti Shetty”.
I swear.
The gerbils are shaking in their skins.
16 years to resolve this? And I thought the US court system was bad.
That’s how long it will take to clear Trump.
At least it was a girl he kissed.
She is 100% not guilty IMHO.
Q. Can gerbils drive?
A. Drive? Heck, they can’t even get out of Gere!
(I’ll show myself out…)
You are an optimist.
Does she have anything to do with Schwetty Balls?
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