Earlier this week magistrate Dinesh Chandra Gupta in the north western Indian city of Jaipur ordered a private television news channel, NDTV, to send the original video recording of the incident by next week, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

Shilpa defends Gere after riots - April 17 2007
Shilpa Shetty today defended Richard Gere for kissing her repeatedly at an Aids awareness event.

Speaking live from Mumbai on GMTV this morning, the Bollywood beauty said: "Oh my God, so much has been blown out of proportion."

Angry crowds in several Indian cities - where public displays of affection are largely taboo - were incited to burn effigies of the Hollywood actor and the Celebrity Big Brother winner after photographs of their embrace on Sunday were printed on newspapers’ front pages.

Shilpa told GMTV presenter Penny Smith: "I think too much has been made out of something that was really quite unimportant.

"He was trying to strike his dance pose from Shall We Dance, his previous movie, and he kind of, you know, just bent over me and he kissed me on the cheeks - I mean, that was it!

"Then they kept playing and replaying it on the channels and people didn’t even know why we were there, and that kind of saddened me and infuriated me.

"People never even talked about the issues."

Shilpa said she did not believe that the effigy-burners - who in Mumbai were members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist group Shiv Sena - were typical of her country.

"It was just, you know, some lunatic fringe - that complete minority voice - that definitely doesn’t represent the symbol of my country."

She said she held a press conference in India after the protests took place to explain what happened, and she claimed the "sensible media" now realised what they had done.

"There’s a complete turnaround now," she said.

Shilpa buys UK base - Mar 24 2007
At least her treatment on Celebrity Big Brother doesn’t seem to have put Shilpa Shetty off the UK for good.

In fact, the 31-year-old has been offered so much work in Britain that she’s bought a house here, according to the Daily Star.

The Bollywood actress has apparently decided to splash out on a £1.5 million home in London’s trendy Hoxton area after being inundated with offers of TV, film and advertising work.

The star has reportedly put in an offer for a luxury five bedroom property which boasts a secluded west facing garden, three bathrooms and two reception rooms.

And she has apparently decided that enough time has passed for the Big Brother racism storm to have blown over enough for her to get back to work.

A source told the paper: "Big Brother was always meant to get her the publicity so she could launch a TV career here. The press she got was more than she could ever dream of, but it was just the wrong type.

"Shilpa now believes enough time has passed for all that to have died down, but does not want to leave it so long the British public forget about her."

Shilpa had nose job - Mar 21 2007
Shilpa Shetty had a nose job before she made her name as a Bollywood beauty.

Sky One documentary The Real Shilpa Shetty told how the actress was an ugly duckling before she turned herself into one of India’s best-looking female stars.

A spokesperson for the star confirmed she went under the knife, saying: "She has always been open and honest about the fact that she has had a nose job. It’s quite a normal thing for Bollywood actresses to have done. She had it done at the start of her career."