Richard Gere faces arrest over passionate kisses
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-04-27 11:37
Actor Richard Gere (L) kisses Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty during an AIDS
awareness programme amongst truck drivers in New Delhi in this April 15, 2007
file photo. An Indian court ordered the arrest of Gere on April 26, 2007 for
kissing Shetty at an AIDS campaign event this month saying it was an obscene act
committed in public. Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks at an event to
promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in some parts of India,
mostly by Hindu vigilante groups, who saw it as an outrage against her modesty
and an affront to Indian culture. The order by a court in the northern city of
Jaipur came in response to a complaint by a local lawyer. [Reuters]
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