A city magistrate's court issued summons to Poonam Pandey, model-turned calendar girl and an occasional film actor, in a case filed against her by a Bangalore lawyer this May. On May 22, lawyer S Umesh filed a private complaint before the VI additional chief metropolitan magistrate against Pandey for exhibiting nudity and hurting religious sentiments.

Magistrate Churi Khan also noted that the accusations against the model were under Sections 295 (outrage religious feeling) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace). But the court took cognizance of the case under section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feeling). The court posted the case to February 22, 2013.

The complainant said Pandey had declared in March that if the Indian team won the cricket World Cup, she would pose in the nude. Accordingly, she had posed nude with the pictures of a Hindu god and Sachin Tendulkar. He also said he sent a notice to her on March 31 to her address in Thane, Maharashtra, but there was no response. She had outraged religious sentiments of the people of the country, the petition alleged.