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In the 2007 Richard Gere kissing case, Mumbai court discharged Shilpa Shetty and upheld previous judgment clearing her of obscenity charges. The way the court reasoned Shilpa Shetty's discharge was that she was a victim to Richard Gere's act of kissing. Further the judge noted that, "A woman being groped on the street or touched on a public way or in public transport cannot be termed as accused or participative to an extent of mental culpability and she cannot be held for illegal omission to make her liable for prosecution." The Court acknowledged that just because Shilpa Shetty did not stop Gere from kissing her, does not make her complicit to any illegal activity. Therefore, the Court deemed that there was no case of obscenity. For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.