A Jaipur [ Images ] court issued arrest warrants against Hollywood star Richard Gere [ Images ] and Shilpa Shetty [ Images ] on Thursday, for their kiss during an AIDS awareness programme in Delhi [ Images ] 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 [ Images ] burnt effigies of Gere and Shetty to vent their anger over the actor's act on stage, calling it indecent behaviour.