Thursday, April 26, 2007

Kisses and Courts

This whole Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty controversy has been ridiculous right from the beginning, but the arrest warrant issued by the Jaipur additional magistrate is shocking and a gross misuse of the judicial system. It has rightly triggered an outrage among India's top legal experts who called it a "cheap publicity stunt" that bordered on "judicial indecency".
The magistrate apparently watched a CD of the function where the 'offending' act took place and pronounced that the act (which was a hug and a few kisses on the cheek )was "sexually erotic" and "indecent".... obviously he hasn't seen any recent bollywood movies , if he had quite a few actors and actresses would be charged following his logic.
The ruling has been criticised by former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee as reminiscent of the "Taliban moral police". He goes on to say that "the order is totally unsustainable and makes us look ridiculous." Other top legal experts have said that this is yet another instance of "hounding orders on frivolous complaints" and expressed a view that the act was not one "to deprave the morality of the nation".
I too support the general view that the ruling is incorrect and makes a mockery of the Indian judiciary and , that the high court should take 'suo motu' notice of the order and quash it.

2 Comments:

At 8:28 PM, Blogger Aki said...

I think the members of the judiciary are outraged that none of them ever got a chance to kiss Shilpa Shetty.

 
At 5:06 AM, Blogger mightypen said...

Yes, that could be a perfectly logical explanation of why the poor deprived magistrate thought that kissing Shilpa on the cheeks was erotic :) Poor chap probably fantasises about it ! lol

 

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