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Legal
Indian court to consider “obscene” Katy Perry performance
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 20 July 2012
An Indian court will consider an indecency claim made against Katy Perry later this month, after a lawyer filed a complaint about an “obscene and lascivious” on-stage incident that occurred when the singer played at the launch of the Twenty20 cricket season earlier this year.
According to reports, Perry invited Australian cricketer Doug Bollinger on stage during her show, and asked him to demonstrate how to hold a cricket bat. This resulted in Bollinger standing immediately behind Perry, and both singer and cricketer holding on to Perry’s microphone at groin height. A sequence that lawyer K Jebakumar believes was designed to appeal “to prurient interest”.
Neither Perry nor Bollinger have been formally charged as yet, so neither will be expected to attend the initial court hearing to consider Jebakumar’s complaint, though if the courts believe there is a case under India’s obscenity laws, then they might be forced to defend their performance in court later this year.
