Obscenity

Bangalore has just banned dancing in bars although no one really seems to know how this ban is supposed to work.
India is the country where you can urinate in public (if you're a man) without so much as having an eyebrow raised but where you can't kiss in public.
1. Richard Gere faces obscenity charges in India for kissing actress Shilpa Shetty during an event to raise AIDS awareness -- although the Supreme Court has stayed proceedings in a lower court, the arrest warrant has not been quashed.
2. However, Justices AR Lakshmanan and Tarun Chatterjee of the Supreme Court dismissed a PIL seeking ban on obscenity in papers filed by Advocate Ajay Goswami in 2006. [1]
3. But item girl Rakhi Sawant was refused permission by the Hyderabad police to perform at an event there. [2]
4. A PIL was filed against Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai and the producer and director of Dhoom 2 by Advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha for attacking the image of the Indian woman by kissing in the film. [3]
5. The Bombay High Court banned TV all channels from showing adult content without certification as a result of a PIL filed by Pratiba Naitthani, a political science professor. [4]
I'm not sure I understand why one does and the other does not constitute obscene conduct in India. And I can't wonder if a great deal of the problem -- such as it is -- has to do with lawyers having nothing better to do although there must be more to it than that.

Links:

[1] http://www.indianexpress.com/story/18445.html

[2] http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/14/stories/2006081419060100.htm

[3] http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=43d1bfa6-527d-4db7-889a-fb0828c1dd21

[4] http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=35727