Richard Gere kisses Shilpa Shetty’s hand at an Aids awareness event in 2007; he went on to tightly hug her and kiss her cheek.Richard Gere kisses Shilpa Shetty’s hand at an Aids awareness event in 2007; he went on to tightly hug her and kiss her cheek.
The charges against Gere were quickly shelved, allowing the actor, one of the world’s best-known Buddhists, to return to India for a meeting with the Dalai Lama. But the case against Shetty languished in India’s glacial legal system for more than a decade until it was finally discharged in Mumbai last week.
Shetty’s lawyer said the entire case rested on the fact that “she did not protest when she was kissed by the co-accused”.