: Interview: Priya Ramani and her lawyer Rebecca John on #MeToo movement’s first big win in India #IndiaNEWS A Delhi district court on February 17 acquitted senior journalist and editor Priya Ramani

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Interview: Priya Ramani and her lawyer Rebecca John on #MeToo movement’s first big win in India #IndiaNEWS
A Delhi district court on February 17 acquitted senior journalist and editor Priya Ramani of criminal charges of defamation brought by MJ Akbar, also a former senior editor, in a verdict that has been hailed as a significant victory for the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, and for women’s rights. Akbar, then a Union minister and presently a Rajya Sabha member from the Bharatiya Janata Party that leads the central government, had averred that Ramani, in accusing him of sexually harassing her during a job interview in December 1993 through tweets linked to an article she had written a year earlier in 2017 had defamed him.Ramani’s tweets had come near the start of the #MeToo movement in India in October 2018 The court, however, said that women “cannot be punished for raisind??Z?8?'??X?HY?Z[???^0?HX??H??Y?H?]^??[Z[?[??Z[??Y?[X][???[?]H?Y???]][??[????H??X?Y]H????H?Y??Y?H[?Y?]H???Y[???X?[?YY[?H[?X[????]][??H??????]?Z[?Y]H??X[??8?'H?Y??]??Y]?[??H][?H]??H????X?x??8?']?[?Y??X?Y???[[?????YK?[??[??????][?????[ZX?X??H[?H???X?H[??HY??X?[K????XY[?H

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