Ghaziabad: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and five TV news channel owners on Tuesday failed to appear in a court in Ghaziabad in connection with the controversy surrounding her kiss with Hollywood star Richard Gere at a public event.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Beena Chaudhry took note of the fact that the summons were not received by the respondents.
The case was deferred till May 21.
The court had issued the summons to them on May 2 on a PIL by a local lawyer that alleged the kiss was an "indecent representation of sexual activities" in a public place.
The petition was filed by Rookan Pal Singh, former president of the Ghaziabad Bar Association, on April 17 demanding action against Shetty and the news channels that aired the incident.
Gere had kissed the actress at an AIDS awareness function in New Delhi last month evoking protests by some sections who alleged it to be an affront on the Indian cultural ethos.
Activists, mostly of Hindu organisations, in Varanasi, Bhopal, Kanpur, Indore, Delhi and Mumbai had burnt figures of Gere and Shetty in effigy and a PIL was also filed in a Jaipur court, the hearing for which is due on May 26.
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