Even as the Supreme Court in India refrains from calling public display of affection as illegal and the Indian Penal Code only makes it a crime only if the act is ‘obscene’ and annoys others in public, a housing society in Mumbai has clearly defined and taken a step towards it as well.
Amid the ‘no littering’, ‘no smoking’ and ‘no rash driving’ signs, now a housing society in Mumbai’s Borivali area has painted a ‘No Kissing Zone’ sign right on the road stretch in front of the society’s gate.
Residents of Borivli’s Satyam Shivam Sundaram society say they are not against couples, just ‘vulgarity’ if it happens right outside their house, reported Mid-day.
After a couple, Karan and Ruchi Parekh living in the housing society first noticed one such duo getting intimate outside their home on the road, they shot a video of it and sent it to the local corporator who told them to send it to police. But the duo reportedly didn’t get much of a response from the cops and hence after discussion with other members of the housing society, they decided to pain the sign.
Residents said couples started coming to the spot during the lockdown as several cars or bikes and used to stay on till late evening, which irked them. They say that after the sign went up, the numbers of couples have reduced and most of them are coming to take selfies at the spot.
(Source: News 18 website, headline composed by Newsroom)
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