Likely to intervene and ask cops to withdraw the FIR. Singh has been booked under Section 292 of IPC, which includes anything that is lascivious, appeals to prurient interest, or tends to deprave or corrupt persons likely to read, see or hear the matter. It because obscenity is defined in such a ridiculously loose and vague manner in Indian law that moral busybodies, cops and lower courts get so many opportunities to harass citizens. Another actor, Shilpa Shetty, is still fighting an equally absurd obscenity case filed in 2007. Because someone chose to be offended by American actor Richard Gere kissing Shetty, police in Alwar, Rajasthan filed an FIR. The magistrate court discharged Shetty, but Rajasthan police filed an appeal 15 years after the FIR that should have never been filed the case goes on. Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman had to wait 14 years before their acquittal in 2009 in the obscenity case over the 1995 Tuff shoes advertisement. Couples kissing in the privacy of their cars have been booked by police in India, as have been those sitting on park benches. When cops don file FIRs, they use provisions like Section 292 as an instrument of extortion. Ideally, politicians should agree that laws like Section 292 of IPC are totally out of sync with any modern, democratic society and kill the law. But since that won happen, we must raise the cost for those who initiate these complaints as well as for cops and courts who take these non-offences onboard. Likely to intervene and ask cops to withdraw the FIR. Singh has been booked under Section of IPC, which includes anything that is lascivious, appeals to prurient interest, or tends to deprave or corrupt persons likely to read, see or hear the matter. It because obscenity is defined in such a ridiculously loose and vague manner in Indian law that moral busybodies, cops and lower courts get so many opportunities to harass citizens. Another actor, Shilpa Shetty, is still fighting an equally absurd obscenity case filed in 2007. Because someone chose to be offended by American actor Richard Gere kissing Shetty, police in Alwar, Rajasthan filed an FIR. The magistrate court discharged Shetty, but Rajasthan police filed a Likely to intervene and ask cops to withdraw the FIR. Singh has been booked under Section 292 of IPC, which includes anything that is lascivious, appeals to prurient interest, or tends to deprave or corrupt persons likely to read, see or hear the matter. It because obscenity is defined in such a ridiculously loose and vague manner in Indian law that moral busybodies, cops and lower courts get so many opportunities to harass citizens. Another actor, Shilpa Shetty, is still fighting an equally absurd obscenity case filed in 2007. Because someone chose to be offended by American actor Richard Gere kissing Shetty, police in Alwar, Rajasthan filed an FIR. The magistrate court discharged Shetty, but Rajasthan police filed an appeal 15 years after the FIR that should have never been filed the case goes on. Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman had to wait 14 years before their acquittal in 2009 in the obscenity case over the 1995 Tuff shoes advertisement. Couples kissing in the privacy of their cars have been booked by police in India, as have been those sitting on park benches. When cops don file FIRs, they use provisions like Section 292 as an instrument of extortion. Ideally, politicians should agree that laws like Section 292 of IPC are totally out of sync with any modern, democratic society and kill the law. But since that won happen, we must raise the cost for those who initiate these complaints as well as for cops and courts who take these non-offences onboard. Likely to intervene and ask cops to withdraw the FIR. Singh has been booked under Section of IPC, which includes anything that is lascivious, appeals to prurient interest, or tends to deprave or corrupt persons likely to read, see or hear the matter. It because obscenity is defined in such a ridiculously loose and vague