Who would have thought a spontaneous kiss on the cheek could snowball into such a huge kissa. Just when we thought the Shilpa Shetty-Richard Gere kissing controversy was kissed goodbye, a local court in Jaipur issues an arrest warrant against the Hollywood actor and summons the Bollywood bombshell to appear before the court on May 5.

This comes after a Jaipur advocate filed a PIL alleging that the act constituted obscenity in a Public place. It's not the first time the kiss is under scrutiny.

The Court in its order said the attitude of the two film personalities was highly erotic and transgressed all limits of vulgarity.

Not just that, Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan also got lip-locked into controversy over a kiss in Dhoom 2.

Is kissing in public or on screen such a crime, or is this a classic case of judicial overreach?

That was the big debate on the CNN-IBN special show Kiss And Tell conducted by Anubha Bhonsle. On the panel of experts to discuss the issue were TV personality and actor Pooja Bedi, Supreme Court senior lawyer Dushyant Dave and petitioner Poonam Chand Bhandari.

Can We Handle a Kiss in Public?

When asked if Indians are okay with kissing in public, Pooja Bedi said, "I just want to say one thing at the beginning, I love the witticism but the issue is so much more deeper and grave than that. This moral policing has to stop. You look at operation majnu Meerut where they attacked a couple for just being together. In a cosmopolitan city like Mumbai couples are hauled up for hugging and holding each other. What have we come to?"

"I don't think there is anything wrong in showing affection by hugging someone. There is a difference between affection and obscenity... like a lip lock or tongue kissing may be too much to digest," she added.

But who decides what is affection and when it crosses over to obscenity?

Pooja Bedi argued, "Exactly, that’s the point that needs to be addressed. That is an issue that needs to be taken up in court. They need to formulate laws that define clearly what is obscenity, what is vulgarity and what is just affection."

Shilpa Shetty has said that she has no problem with the kissing and there was no problem. What did you find objectionable about the Shilpa-Gere kiss?

Taking a cue from the argument, Poonam Chand said, "It is an offence in IPC under Section 284. If someone gets obscene in a public place and it annoys others, then it is an offence. It’s not a PIL, I have filed a criminal complaint. Shilpa Shetty was not aware of the fact that it is an offence. The guilty must be punished."