According to sources after several women accused former Union Minister M.J. Akbar of sexual harassment in the wake of the #MeToo campaign, an allegation of rape has now surfaced with a US based journalist narrating her ordeal of working under him when he was the editor of The Asian Age. Meanwhile Pallavi Gogoi, Chief Business Editor at National Public Radio, in an article written under her byline for The Washington Post published on Friday, narrated her detailed account and described the incident of rape and various others incidents of sexual assault on her 23 years ago as “the most painful memories of my life”.
Reports added Akbar’s lawyer, Sandeep Kapur, told the Washington Post that his client “states these (incidents and allegation) are false and expressly denied.” When contacted by IANS, Kapur said the same thing adding that “any further course of action would be decided by the evening.” Furthermore after two incidents in Delhi and Bombay where Akbar had sexually molested and assaulted her, she said, one news story took her to a remote village a few hundred miles from Delhi.
Gogoi said “In his hotel room, even though I fought him, he was physically more powerful. He ripped off my clothes and raped me. Instead of reporting him to the police, I was filled with shame”.
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