SC stalls proceedings against Shilpa

KISS & TELL: Shetty appealed to the Apex Court for a transfer of the case to a Mumbai court.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a court in Rajasthan from hearing a petition against actress Shilpa Shetty for kissing Hollywood star Richard Gere.

The kissing controversy during an AIDS awareness programme at the Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar in the national Capital in April had sparked strong protests in several cities.

Shilpa was alleged to have kissed Hollywood Actor Richard Gere for which criminal proceedings were imitated.

While staying the proceedings, the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan also stayed the order of the court in Rajasthan that restrained Shetty from going overseas.

On Monday, Shetty appealed to the Apex Court for a transfer of the case to a Mumbai court.

She also requested for the case to be stayed till the transfer plea that she had filed would be decided.

In the petition that she had filed, the actress claimed that the incident was misconstrued hence wrongly projected by the media.

This resulted in the filing of private complaints against her before the magistrate at Jodhpur, Mundawar and Ghaziabad, by local lawyers.

Shetty apprehended that she might be served with summons or warrants by the magistrates and hence sought the transfer of the cases to the court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Mumbai, where she lives.

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