Pre-marital sex: SC quashes 22 cases against Khushboo

New Delhi, April 28: In a big relief for Tamil actress Khushboo, the Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed 22 cases filed against her in connection with her controversial remarks on pre-marital sex.

The cases were filed by various groups after Khushboo said in an interview to a Tamil magazine in 2005 that there was nothing wrong in pre-marital sex if it was consensual.

The remarks had attracted lot of criticism and the Tamil actor had to fight a long legal battle.

She had approached the Supreme Court in 2008.

–Agencies