MUMBAI: Milind Soman has been charged under Sections 294 (Obscene acts and songs) and 67 (Punishment for publishing/transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of IT Act, for his social media post, wherein he was seen sprinting naked on Goa's beach.

This comes after FIR against Poonam Pandey and her subsequent arrest in Goa for shooting an ‘obscene video’.

On Thursday, The South Goa District police booked Soman for promoting obscenity days after a nude photograph of the former supermodel, running on a beach went viral.

Pankaj Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police, South Goa, has revealed that a case has been registered against the said at Colva Police Station, under Sections 294 IPC and 67 IT Act.

“An organisation called Goa Suraksha Manch had given a complaint against Milind Soman for running nude on a beach in South Goa and then circulating those pictures on social media.”, Singh adds.

The actor and model had shared the same photo on his birthday. He is vacationing in Goa with wife Ankita Konwar, who is also credited as the photographer.

“Happy birthday to me 55 and running,” he had captioned the photo.

The photo had led to diverse reactions online with many, including scriptwriter Apurva Asrani, pointing out how we have been kinder to ‘our nude man’ than nude women, signalling at Poonam.

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Poonam and her husband, filmmaker Sam Bombay, were arrested by the Goa Police on Thursday for allegedly trespassing on government property and shooting an ‘obscene’ video at a dam in the Canacona town of South Goa.

The case was registered against Poonam after a complaint by the state water resources department, which manages the Chapoli Dam, where the video was shot.

The couple was granted bail the same day.  

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Credit: Hindustan Times