Actress
Shilpa
Shetty
has
moved
court
to
seek
dismissal
of
a
plea
challenging
the
order
of
Mumbai,
magistrate
court
discharging
her
from
an
obscenity
case
involving
Hollywood
star
Richard
Gere.
As
per
a
report
in
News18,
Shilpa
in
her
plea
has
claimed
that
the
only
allegation
against
her
is
that
she
didn't
protest
when
Gere
kissed
her
and
therefore,
this
doesn't
make
her
a
conspirator.
In
her
reply
to
the
plea,
the
actress
claimed
that
she
was
a
victim
of
malicious
proceedings
and
harassment
at
the
hands
of
the
complainant
and
that
she
as
an
artist
has
always
acted
responsibly.
In
January
this
year,
Metropolitan
Magistrate
Ketaki
Chavan
had
dismissed
Shetty
in
this
case.
Later
in
April,
the
Rajasthan
police
approached
the
sessions
court
against
the
magistrate's
order
and
stated
in
its
plea
that
the
magistrate
had
erred
in
discharging
Shilpa.
They
claimed
that
her
act
in
kissing
or
allowing
to
be
kissed
in
a
public
place
amounted
to
obscenity.
For
the
unversed,
in
2007,
Shilpa
Shetty
landed
in
an
'obscenity'
controversy
when
Hollywood
star
Richard
Gere
kissed
her
on
her
cheek
at
an
AIDS
Awareness
event
in
Delhi.
At
that
time,
the
kiss
had
stirred
a
huge
controversy.
Later,
Gere
apologised
for
his
act
and
said
that
he
was
trying
to
show
that
kissing
was
a
safe
act
that
could
not
lead
to
the
transmission
of
HIV.
Coming
back
to
Shilpa
Shetty,
the
actress
was
last
seen
in
Sabbir
Khan's
Nikamma
alongside
Abhimanyu
Dassani
and
Shirley
Setia.
The
film
was
a
box
office
dud.