Updated Feb 17, 2021 · 07:24 pm Journalist Priya Ramani (left) with her lawyer Rebecca John at Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi after the verdict. | Scroll.in/Vijayta Lalwani
A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in the defamation case filed by former Union minister MJ Akbar,
Bar and Bench reported. Ramani had accused Akbar of sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement in India in 2018.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey, while reading out the judgement said that a woman has the right to “put her grievance even after decades”, also noting that the Vishakha guidelines were not relevant at the time of the alleged incident.
We won this : Twitter hails Priya Ramani s acquittal in MJ Akbar s #MeToo defamation case We won this : Twitter hails Priya Ramani s acquittal in MJ Akbar s #MeToo defamation case
A Delhi court s verdict in the criminal defamation case filed by Rajya Sabha MP MJ Akbar against journalist Priya Ramani is being hailed as a victory for India s #MeToo movement.
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UPDATED: February 17, 2021 16:58 IST
Journalist Priya Ramani and her lawyer Rebecca John at the Delhi court on Wednesday (Picture Courtesy: Twitter @Yazhinisiddhu)
Dismissing Rajya Sabha MP MJ Akbar s criminal defamation suit against journalist Priya Ramani, a Delhi court on Wednesday ruled that the right to dignity takes precedence over the right to reputation. Ramani had in 2017 accused Akbar of sexual harassment, a charge she reiterated in a tweet in 2018.
Priya Ramani acquitted, Delhi court agrees MJ Akbar isn t a man of stellar reputation
Priya Ramani acquitted, Delhi court agrees MJ Akbar isn t a man of stellar reputation
Journalist Priya Ramani has been acquitted by a Delhi court in a criminal defamation case filed against her by MJ Akbar. Ramani had accused him of sexual harassment.
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UPDATED: February 17, 2021 23:55 IST
MJ Akbar had filed a criminal defamation case against Priya Ramani after she accused him of sexually harassing her during a job interview. (Credit: Rahul Gupta/IndiaToday)
A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a criminal defamation case filed against her by veteran editor and former Union minister MJ Akbar. The case was filed in October 2018 after Priya Ramani accused MJ Akbar of sexually harassing her during a job interview in 1993.
Updated Feb 17, 2021 · 08:59 pm File photo of Journalist Priya Ramani. | IANS
A woman cannot be punished for raising voice against sexual abuse, a Delhi court noted in its verdict on Wednesday in the MJ Akbar-Priya Ramani defamation case. The court held journalist Ramani not guilty in the defamation case filed by Akbar.
Ramani had accused Akbar of sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement in India in 2018. Following the allegations, Akbar resigned from the Union Council of Ministers and filed a defamation case against her.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey said that women who have suffered sexual abuse may not speak about it for years, believing that they are at fault for ages. He said that most of the women who do not speak up about sexual abuse for one reason, “the shame” or the social stigma attached with sexual harassment.
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 17:05 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 17: The following is the timeline of M J Akbar s criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani for her allegations of sexual harassment against him in which Delhi court acquitted her.
Here s the timeline:
Oct 8, 2018: Ramani names Akbar in a tweet with a reference to a 2017 Vogue India article she had written titled To the Harvey Weinsteins of the World .
Oct 15: Akbar files criminal defamation complaint before Delhi court.
Oct 17: Akbar resigns as Union minister.
Jan 29, 2019: Delhi court summons Ramani as accused in the case.
Feb 25: Delhi court grants bail to Ramani.
Feb 7, 2020: Court starts hearing final arguments in the case.