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The court quashed an FIR against 5 individuals booked for watching a performance by women wearing short clothes allegedly dancing indecently while the accused were showering fake currency notes on these women.
Women dancing provocatively in skimpy clothes or making gestures are not “obscene” or “immoral” acts which could annoy someone, the Bombay High Court has held.A division bench of Justices Vinay Joshi...
Khan pleaded that the entire FIR taken as is, does not disclose any offence committed by Khan and that the FIR is an abuse of process of law.
The sessions judge also reasoned that Shetty “had not kissed, but was kissed” which indicated that the offence of obscenity was not committed by her.
A woman being groped on the streets cannot be prosecuted as a participant to the crime, the Sessions Court observed while upholding actor Shilpa Shetty’s discharge in a 2007 obscenity case involving...