INS Monitoring Desk:
Actor Alok Nath,known for his ideal and perfect Indian patriarchial roles especially, in films like ‘Hum Aapkey hain Kaun’,’Meine pyaar kia’ and recently Imran khan directed movie ‘Sargoshian’ shot in Kashmir.
Alok Nath ,accused of rape by writer producer Vinta Nanda in the #Metoo movement,has sued for defamation,asking for a written apology and Re 1 as compensation reports NDTV.
Alok Nath, , has denied the charges of sexual misconduct. Vinta Nanda had accused him of raping her 19 years ago.
Meanwhile ,Union Minister M J Akbar, accused of sexual harassment by a dozen women in India’s #MeToo movement, has filed a defamation case against the first woman who named him, journalist Priya Ramani.
MJ Akbar had said yesterday that his lawyers were exploring legal action on the allegations, which prompted calls for his resignation from government.
The former editor of newspapers like The Telegraph and the Asian Age, was named by Priya Ramani in a tweet on October 8. She said MJ Akbar was the man she had referred to in an incident she had shared in a magazine article a year ago, when the Harvey Weinstein scandal in the US fuelled an avalanche of #MeToo allegations.
In his defamation suit, Mr Akbar has accused her of “willfully, deliberately, intentionally and maliciously defaming” him on “completely false, frivolous, unjustifiable and scandalous grounds” and harming his goodwill and reputation.
The minister said the journalist had caused “great humiliation” to him.He made it clear that he will contest the allegations rather than resign.
