The "Morality" Police

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Non-bailable warrants against Shilpa, Reema
Friday, 21 April , 2006, 16:26
Madurai: A Chennai court issued non-bailable warrants against actors Reema Sen and Shilpa Shetty for "posing in an obscene manner" in photographs published in a Tamil eveninger.
A non-bailable warrant has also been issued to the eveninger's editor Murugan.
Judicial Magistrate II Seetharaman had been issuing summons on a petition filed by one Dhakshinamoorthy, an advocate from February 15.
The Judge had earlier ordered them to appear on March 10. Subsequent summons also did not elicit any response. The summons were also published in newspapers in Hindi and English.
However, the actresses failed to appear in the court. Hence non-bailable warrants were issued on Friday.
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Well, there goes Tamilnadu again!! First Khushboo and now Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen. It is obvious to me that a lot of folks there haven't got anything better or constructive to do. I mean, instead of filing useless petitions, use that money to feed the poor or for some other genuine social cause!! And if this petition filing is free, perhaps it should be made free only for certain categories. This is a waste of the court's time as well. And by the way, court cases in India take forever to be cleared/decided owing to a huge backlog and not very many judges. In this instant, this clearly frivolous petition should have been thrown out.

Mr. Dakshinamoorthy, advocate- you obviously don't have enough work/cases on hand which is why you were:
a) leafing through the 'eveninger' that published these pictures
b)Probably found the pictures scintillating
c)Felt guilty about it
d)Blamed the magazine and the actresses in the pictures for putting 'obscene' thoughts into your head.

And please, don't tell me that you were concerned about the impact these would have on the younger generation, including you children, if you have any. Trust me, with our Tamil cinema too providing all the right moves through its actresses, a few pictures of good looking, sexy women is not going to make a big difference to them.. unlike you, they are not going to be running around with the 'Shuddhum kuru, Pavitram kuru' type of mantra and wasting the court's precious time just to be in the news.

Having said that, I hope after this case is thrown out (as it should be!), this cheap publicity stunt will get you some clients!