Akshay Kumar arrested for obscenity, bailed out

Film star Akshay Kumar was arrested on Monday (May 18) morning by the police in Mumbai in connection with obscene behaviour in public during the recent Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW), a senior police official said.

"We arrested him under Indian Penal Code Section 294, which deals with obscenity in public. Since it is a bailable offence, he was released on bail," said Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Arvind Mahabadhi.

During the LIFW in early April, while walking the ramp for Levi’s, Akshay had walked up to his wife Twinkle, who was sitting in the front row, and got her to unbutton his jeans.

Akshay's unbuttoning act had kicked up a storm with some private individuals lodging police complaints, accusing Akshay of immoral and indecent behaviour in public.

Akshay had been away from India since that incident and has just returned to Mumbai today after the long schedule abroad.

ACP Mahabadhi said that now the case would be further investigated and depending on the outcome, a charge-sheet would be filed against the star.
Another controversy that Akki has landed into is over a dialogue in the film “Kambakkht Ishq”.

In one of the scenes he says “women are good only for one thing”.

There has been a huge objection to this from social groups who say the statement is highly obscene and disrespectful of women.

Akshay has clarified that his character in the film is of a bad man who has no respect for women, so the dialogue has been penned accordingly.