{"id":8599,"date":"2008-03-14T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/gere-cleared-in-shilpa-kiss-row\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:00:26","slug":"gere-cleared-in-shilpa-kiss-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/gere-cleared-in-shilpa-kiss-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Gere cleared in Shilpa kiss row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Complaints were \u201cfrivolous\u201d, says court<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"275\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/RichardGereShilpaShetty180x232.jpg\"\/>HOLLYWOOD actor Richard Gere has been cleared of all charges relating to his infamous kissing incident with Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The actor was accused of obscene behaviour after he embraced and kissed the actress as a public event last year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>India\u2019s Supreme Court dismissed the charges against him calling them \u201cfrivolous\u201d. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Gere, a regular visitor to India, had planned to return to the country later this year and had appealed to the court to dismiss the charges against him. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Richard Gere is free to enter the country. This is the end of the matter,&#8221; a two-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The judges said the court believed that such complaints (against celebrities) were &#8220;frivolous&#8221; and filed for &#8220;cheap publicity&#8221;. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The complainants &#8220;have brought a bad name to the country&#8221;, the court added.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Gere is an active Aids campaigner and has visited India a number of times in the past. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complaints were \u201cfrivolous\u201d, says court HOLLYWOOD actor Richard Gere has been cleared of all charges relating to his infamous kissing incident with Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty. &#13; The actor was accused of obscene behaviour after he embraced and kissed the actress as a public event last year. &#13; India\u2019s Supreme Court dismissed the charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}