‘Vital for women to speak up on sexual harassment’: Priya Ramani in MJ Akbar defamation case
Ramani was recording her statement in a defamation plaint filed against her by former Union Minister MJ Akbar.
Ramani was recording her statement in a defamation plaint filed against her by former Union Minister MJ Akbar.
Her case led the #MeToo wave in India as it opened the floodgates for numerous other women from every walk of life to come forward with their stories.
In January 2019, NCW has registered 29 cases under the specific category of complaints of ‘Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace’
WCD has also launched an Electronic Complaints Box that enables women, irrespective of their work status, to raise their voice against sexual harassment at workplace.
Akbar has come under the media spotlight after many of his former women colleagues took to micro-blogging site Twitter in the wake of the ‘MeToo’ campaign in India and accused him of sexual misconduct
