SC allows Shilpa to go abroad

New Delhi, May 18 (UNI) The Supreme Court today allowed Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty to go abroad.

Shilpa is facing three complaint cases for indulging in obscenity in public place where Richard Gere, a Hollywood actor, publicly planted lingering kisses on her face and neck at a function organised in aid of AIDS patients.

A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices B P Singh and G P mathur also issued a notice to the Superintendent of Police(SP), Mundawar, Rajasthan, who had issued lookout notices to all the airports in the country asking them not to let Shilpa go abroad.

Notably, the apex court has already stayed proceedings in all the three criminal cases pending against the actor in Jaipur, Mundawar and Ghaziabad, on a transfer petition filed by her seeking a transfer of the cases to Mumbai.

The counsel for Shilpa today contended before the court that the Police Commissioner, Thane, had confirmed to her father that the look out notice had been issued for the actor by the SP, Mundawar, and she could not leave the country.

It was a totally illegal notice and it would adversely affect her professional assignments abroad as she had to go abroad every alternate week because of her immense popularity there after winning the 'Big Brother' reality show, the counsel contended.

Now, the petition will be heard after reopening of the Supreme Court following a vacation on July 9.

Today is the apex court's last working day before the vacation.

UNI