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Mr. J. Akbar, Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs, said before allegations of trial and error, assaults and harassment from former colleagues, that he had decided to resign and challenge what he said. he described as "false accusations".
"Since I decided to seek justice in court on a personal basis, I consider it appropriate to resign from my post and challenge the false charges against me, also in a personal capacity ", did he declare.
Akbar, a former senior editor of an influential newspaper, has stepped down after initially refusing to withdraw from the wave of accusations in recent days.
Over the weekend, Akbar dismissed more and more appeals to withdraw, dismissing allegations as false and promising to go to court to clarify his name, which he did on Monday , pursuing the first of his accusers for defamation.
Defamation challenge
Akbar's defamation lawsuit targets journalist Priya Ramani, who named her last week to be the subject of an article she had written for Vogue India in 2017 .
She describes a harassment experience at work during a job interview with an anonymous publisher in a hotel room in Mumbai.
On October 8, she tweeted to say that the unnamed publisher was Akbar, thus making the first of a series of public allegations against the minister from the elders colleagues.
His lawsuit alleges that Ramani had "deliberately, deliberately, intentionally and maliciously" defamed "for reasons quite false, frivolous, unjustifiable and scandalous".
A few minutes after the announcement of Akbar's resignation, Ramani tweeted: "As women, we feel justified by the resignation of Mr. J. Akbar.I look forward to the day when justice will be also made in court #metoo. "
#MeToo chorus
The #MeToo Indian movement appears to have been motivated by last month's allegations, former Bollywood actress, Tanushree Dutta, who allegedly was the victim of an alleged assault at the hands of Nana Patekar, her co-star in a film of 2008.
At a press conference last week, Patekar dismissed the charges, saying, "My lawyers have told me not to talk to the media, so I can not say anything. have been saying something over the past four days – 10 years, which was true is true today. "
In the weeks following Dutta's allegations, stories of sexual misconduct shook the media and entertainment industry at large.
A leading comedy group popular with the Indian millennium generation was also shaken when an actor he worked with faced harassment charges.
Moreover, in the media sector, a senior political reporter based in Delhi reportedly lost his position while awaiting an internal investigation, according to the information collected.
