Akbar told the court the remedy against a misconduct at workplace was always available and that Ramani's accusation were not in good faith or in public interest.
During final hearing of his criminal defamation complaint against Priya Ramani, MJ Akbar claims there was no meeting with her at the hotel where, she alleged, he sexually misbehaved.
The court was hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by Akbar against Ramani. He alleged she defamed him by accusing him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago.
Akbar had filed the complaint against Ramani for allegedly defaming him by accusing him of sexual misconduct. Whereas, Ramani said the allegations were her truth.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja was among 215 judicial officers transferred and posted with immediate effect by a Delhi HC notification issued Wednesday.
Journalist Priya Ramani in 2018 had accused former union minister M.J. Akbar of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago. Akbar resigned after several others too accused him.
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This case should never have been filed. If Mr Akbar decides to appeal, with 95 lawyers, all the women he has wronged grievously over the decades should tender sworn affidavits to the police. Insist on their being investigated professionally and brought to trial. There could not have been a more gentle soul than Ms Priya Ramani.
As a companion column by Shri Shanker Animesh explains, Dr Kiran Bedi may have become a political / electoral liability. Her welcome removal does not restore lustre to Raj Bhavans / Niwases. Their fax machines will work / fall silent, their Durbar Halls dolled up for furtive dawn swearing ins, entirely as the situation demands. Recall how efficiently the governance / politics of Tamil Nadu was choreographed from the Malabar Hill Raj Bhavan during Ms Jayalalithaa’s hospitalisation. No early return to constitutional propriety is discernible over the horizon. The Whataboutery crowd can cite Romesh Bhandari in Lucknow by way of moral equivalence.
Dr Randeep Guleria is postulating private vaccinations by year end, when he believes demand and supply of vaccines will be in balance. That is too far out. The Mayor of Mumbai was cautioning citizens to take precautions, lest a second lockdown become necessary.
This case should never have been filed. If Mr Akbar decides to appeal, with 95 lawyers, all the women he has wronged grievously over the decades should tender sworn affidavits to the police. Insist on their being investigated professionally and brought to trial. There could not have been a more gentle soul than Ms Priya Ramani.
As a companion column by Shri Shanker Animesh explains, Dr Kiran Bedi may have become a political / electoral liability. Her welcome removal does not restore lustre to Raj Bhavans / Niwases. Their fax machines will work / fall silent, their Durbar Halls dolled up for furtive dawn swearing ins, entirely as the situation demands. Recall how efficiently the governance / politics of Tamil Nadu was choreographed from the Malabar Hill Raj Bhavan during Ms Jayalalithaa’s hospitalisation. No early return to constitutional propriety is discernible over the horizon. The Whataboutery crowd can cite Romesh Bhandari in Lucknow by way of moral equivalence.
Dr Randeep Guleria is postulating private vaccinations by year end, when he believes demand and supply of vaccines will be in balance. That is too far out. The Mayor of Mumbai was cautioning citizens to take precautions, lest a second lockdown become necessary.