Mumbai, March 27 :    Mumbai, March 27:  It was not a black buck that forced police to see red and move against Sonali Bendre this time. The actress, known for her skimpy dresses in Bollywood flicks, was arrested today for adorning the cover of a film magazine in a printed kurta that police said had hurt religious sentiments. She was picked up from her Lokhandwala home and produced before additional chief metropolitan magistrate Usha Iyer, who released her on bail. Bendre's picture on the cover of a 1998 issue of Showtime showed her attired in a short kurta with bare legs. The ochre-coloured top worn by her sported religious motifs, including a trident and the word 'om'. A government lawyer defended the decision to arrest Bendre two years after the issue was published and said the police moved against the accused after the state government gave the green light. The police also arrested Ashali Charles Rebello, who had designed Bendre's kurta and photographer Amit Shanta Kumar Ashar, who had shot her for the magazine cover. Bendre is not the first in Bollywood to be sucked into such a controversy. However, the zeal displayed by the authorities matched the reputation of the erstwhile Shiv Sena, and not the current Congress, government. Bendre and her co-accused were charged with deliberate and malicious acts to outrage the religious feelings of any community under Section 295(a) of the Indian Penal Code. They were granted bail after defence lawyers pleaded that the case was too old and assured the court that the actress and the other two would come to court whenever called. A police officer said though the social security section of the police had registered the case in March 1998 immediately after the issue was published, it could not initiate action against her because of the government delay in granting permission. Along with actor Salman Khan and a few others, Bendre was arrested in Rajasthan a few years ago for hunting endangered black bucks. A source close to her said the actress was 'terribly upset' that the police had moved against her on 'a frivolous charge'. The actress, however, said in the court that she had nothing against the police. She is now playing significant roles in several big-banner films, including Mahesh Manjrekar's Tera Mera Saath Rahe. The controversy puts Bendre in the company of a galaxy of showbiz personalities like Pooja Bhatt, Mamta Kulkarni, models Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman and designer Malini Ramani. Bhatt came under the hostile glare of the law after she appeared on a glossy with her body painted, while Kulkarni went topless for a magazine. Sapre and Soman stunned the moral police when a shoe advertisement featured them wrapped in little but a snake. Ramani raised eyebrows after she turned up at a fashion show's party in a tricolour dress.