New Delhi: Actress Shilpa Shetty, caught in the midst of the ‘kissing controversy’ can breath easy. The Supreme Court on Friday permitted her to go abroad for her work purposes, provided she had the relevant travel documents.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices B P Singh and G P Mathur passed the orders on a fresh application moved by Shilpa challenging the ‘look out’ notice issued against her by the Superintendent of Police, Mundawar (Alwar) Rajasthan.
The police notice followed a Mundawar court arrest warrant against Hollywood actor Richard Gere for his controversial on-stage kisses on Shilpa's cheek during an AIDS awareness show in the Capital. The court had ordered a probe in response to a private complaint on the incident.
Senior counsel Anand Grover who appeared for the actress sought a stay of the notice on the ground that it was “illegal and infructuous” in view of the May 15 stay granted by the apex court on the criminal cases registered against her at Mundawar, Jodhpur and Ghaziabad.
Shilpa had sought quashing of criminal cases registered against her at Jodhpur, Ghaziabad and Munawar (Halwar) police stations.
Gere's controversial kiss on Shilpa's cheeks last month had sparked off a huge row with moral police taking to streets, burning the actors’ effigies and demanding strong action against them.
(With Agency inputs)
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