{"id":2459,"date":"2007-04-27T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/india-court-orders-geres-arres.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:31:00","slug":"india-court-orders-geres-arres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/india-court-orders-geres-arres.html","title":{"rendered":"India court orders Gere&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kdnaHHns3c0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kdnaHHns3c0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Can you believe it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The order by a court in the northern city of Jaipur came in response to a complaint by a local lawyer.The judge watched a video recording of Gere kissing Shetty and found him guilty of violating Indian laws against public obscenity, the lawyer, Poonam Chand Bhandari, said.The court also summoned Shilpa Shetty to appear on May 5, Bhandari said, adding that Gere was also ordered to be arrested.Gere can be sent to jail for up to three months or fined or both for the crime if he is arrested. He is not in India now but can be held if he visits the country again.The Hollywood star is a devout Buddhist and a vocal supporter of the Tibetan cause and visits India frequently to meet the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India.[&#8230;]Groups of men had burned and kicked straw effigies of Gere and Shetty in sporadic protests across the country after newspapers published the picture of the kiss on their front pages and TV channels aired visuals of the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=2007-04-26T110735Z_01_DEL83208_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-GERE.xml&amp;amp;pageNumber=0&#038;imageid=&amp;cap=&#038;sz=13&amp;WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2\">here<\/a>.(<a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=2007-04-26T110735Z_01_DEL83208_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-GERE.xml&amp;amp;pageNumber=1&#038;imageid=&amp;cap=&#038;sz=13&amp;WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1\">via<\/a>)Related Posts:<a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/richard-gere-burned-in-effigy-over.html\" title=\"permanent link\">Richard Gere burned in effigy over kisses<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/India\" rel=\"tag\">India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Richard+Gere\" rel=\"tag\">Richard Gere<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over this: Can you believe it? The order by a court in the northern city of Jaipur came in response to a complaint by a local lawyer.The judge watched a video recording of Gere kissing Shetty and found him guilty of violating Indian laws against public obscenity, the lawyer, Poonam Chand Bhandari, said.The court also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>India court orders Gere&#039;s arrest - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/india-court-orders-geres-arres.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"India court orders Gere&#039;s arrest - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over this: Can you believe it? 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