Shilpa asks court to reject plea against her discharge in Richard Gere kiss case

The Richard Gere-Shilpa Shetty on-stage kiss at a charity event in New Delhi in 2007, doesn't seem to leave the Bollywood actress.

Shetty, acting through her lawyer, Prasant Patil, has sought the dismissal of a plea challenging the January order of a Ballard Pier, Mumbai, magistrate court discharging her from an obscenity case resulting from the incident.

In April, the Alwar, Rajasthan, police had approached the sessions court against the magistrate's order and stated in its plea that the magistrate had erred in discharging Shilpa and that her act in kissing or allowing to be kissed in a public place amounted to obscenity.

The police had contended if the court examines the FIR, it would find that a prima facie case is made out against the actress.