Ravindra Kumar Pandey, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, made the remarks while acquitting journalist Priya Ramani in a criminal defamation case filed by MJ Akbar for accusing him of sexual misconduct in 2018 in the wake of #MeToo movement.
Ramani was recording her statement in a defamation plaint filed against her by former Union Minister MJ Akbar.
The proceedings were adjourned for the day. Matter will come up for hearing on September 9.
Ramani was accused by Akbar for criminal defamation after she levelled allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against the journalist-turned-politician.
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“Feminism just means men and women are equal. A woman is not a property of a man,” says the writer, further elaborating that it does not make sense when women do not associate themselves as feminists.
Joyeeta Basu who worked with The Asian Age till 2008, said Akbar had been "perfectly professional in his dealing with her".
MJ Akbar on Friday denied accusations of rape by Pallavi Gogoi, claiming he had a consensual relationship with her.
In a separate statement, his wife Mallika Akbar also dismissed Gogoi's accusations, made in an article Friday, as a 'lie'.
Pallavi Gogoi alleged that she had to 'pay a very big price' for being the editor of the op-ed page of a prominent newspaper at the age of 23.
