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Friday, Dec 17, 2004

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Nothing illegal in Kareena-Shahid snap: Mid-Day

MUMBAI, DEC. 16. Sticking to its guns, city-based tabloid, facing a Rs 20-crore lawsuit from Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor, today denied ``doctoring the pictures of the actress kissing her boyfriend'' and actor Shahid Kapoor and asserted ``the newspaper by carrying the photographs has not done anything illegal''.

The city-based tabloid ``Mid-Day'' had yesterday splashed pictures of Kareena smooching Shahid Kapoor in a suburban restaurant.

Strongly reacting to the ``obscene'' photographs, both Kareena and Shahid had slapped legal notices on the publication.

The Mid-Day said Kareena, in her notice, has claimed ``the pictures were doctored and are completely false and defamatory''.

She has demanded that the paper either apologise or face Rs 20-crore lawsuit. The actress further said the ``paper fabricated the photographs in order to create cheap publicity for it''. In a point-by-point response to the notice, the publication said ``the material in question is not a series of pictures but a video clip shot on a mobile phone''. It says the video clip is at present with the Mid-Day and shows the couple at the restaurant very clearly. ``We do not agree that photographs are obscene and the paper has done nothing illegal in publishing them'', it said adding ``we understand the reasons Kareena is upset but we do not think the issue is legal''. -- PTI

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