A Jaipur court issued arrest warrants against Hollywood star Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, for their kiss during an AIDS awareness programme in Delhi earlier this month.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jaipur, Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants on a PIL filed by a Jaipur resident, Poonam Chand Bhandari.

Gere's kiss on Shetty's cheek during the AIDS awareness programme had evoked strong protests in several cities.

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Activists, mostly of Hindu outfits, in Varanasi, Bhopal, Kanpur, Indore, Delhi and Mumbai burnt effigies of Gere and Shetty to vent their anger over the actor's act on stage, calling it indecent behaviour.