Indian Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Richard Gere for vulgar smooch.

[gatorboy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070426/people-gere

NEW DELHI — A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," media reports said.

Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called "highly sexually erotic," saying the pair violated India's strict public obscenity laws.

Gere and Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity and have the tendency to corrupt the society," PTI quoted the judge as saying.


Such cases against celebrities _ often filed by publicity seekers _ are common in conservative India. They add to a backlog of legal cases that has nearly crippled the country's judicial system.

[ellacott]

1. I was a little disappointed in Richard

for disregarding the customs of that country. He can't claim ignorance because he should have known.

I understand that this may be a frivolous lawsuit but I hope there are not any repurcussions directed towards the actress that he mauled.

[jilln]

4. It's not a lawsuit, it's criminal.

[Missy M]

2. That is ridiculous.....

time for them to come into the 21st century.

[gatorboy]

5. Especially when you consider the AIDS explosion India has had.

They can be conservative prudes all they want. But some of these actions are probably helping kill the country.

[undeterred]

3. Were they showing American Gigolo with subtitles?