Model Madhu Sapre will face a trial for charges of obscenity and indecent representation of women, along with five others, including model Milind Soman with the Sessions Court in Mumbai dismissing her discharge application.
The court has held that there was a prima facie case against her, on Friday.
A photograph of the Tuff shoes advertisement, in which Sapre had posed nude with Soman, had appeared with a news item in a newspaper on July 23, 1995, sparking off protests.
Later, a police complaint was filed against Sapre, Soman and four others by some women’s groups. A court case was filed then. Sapre’s discharge application, filed in the Metropolitan Magistrate's court, was dismissed on February 2, 1999.
On April 6, 1999 she moved the Sessions court challenging the order. Her application said she was shocked to see the picture and news item in Sunday Mid Day because she had not authorized Mid-Day to publish it.
She also said that she could not be charged for obscenity because, according to law, merely a nude or semi-nude picture does not count as obscenity.
The arguments, however, failed to impress the court.
The other accused are Ashok Kurian, Ashish Madanmohan, Prabhakar Das Gupta and Rita Mehta.
Model Madhu Sapre will face a trial for charges of obscenity and indecent representation of women, along with five others, including model Milind Soman with the Sessions Court in Mumbai dismissing her discharge application.