While talking to Barkha Dutta at We The Women on Sunday, Mahesh Bhupathi recalled an incident when Lara Dutta was complicit of Sajid Khan's inapt behaviour.
IFTDA, along with its mother body, FWICE said they will take a decision regarding the sexual harassment charges made against Sajid Khan and Alok Nath within a week.
SRM University Vice Chancellor Sandeep Sancheti, however, denied the allegations of inaction and said the administration would look into the complaint.
The action was taken after women personnel approached Police Commissioner (city) Satish Sharma last week with a written complaint.
Amid the ongoing #MeToo movement, Kannada film actress Sruthi Hariharan on Saturday filed a sexual harassment case with the police against actor Arjun Sarja, a week after she had named him on the social media.
Written complaints were received by the NCW recently from various women about sexual harassment at their workplace.
Lara Dutta's husband Mahesh Bhupathi tweeted in support of his wife's decision and asked the film industry to stop engaging with the sexual offenders.
Rahul Raj Singh alleged that screenwriter Mushtaq Sheikh molested him and promised to offer him roles. When he refused, he (Sheikh) dropped his character from the TV show.
Bombay High Court also suggested that if the woman doesn't want to pursue the legal case against Vikas Bahl then nobody (Kashyap and Motwane) should talk about it.
Anirban Das Blah was asked to step aside from his position in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Akbar's name had cropped up in the social media campaign #Metoo against alleged sexual harassment when he was in Nigeria.
Vikas Bahl has sought an interim direction from the court seeking to restrain Kashyap and Motwane from making any statements, either to the media or on social media platforms, against him.
Sushant Singh, general secretary, CINTAA said the organisation is collaborating with several people to eliminate the issue. Actor Renuka Shahane, filmmaker Amol Gupte, journalist Bharti Dubey, PoSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassement) lawyers and psychologists will also be part of the committee.
Bora said she had met Das in 2004 at India International Centre when she was 28, and had been married for less than a year.
After Sona Mohapatra, Shweta Pandit accused Anu Malik of sexual misconduct.
Earlier, entrepreneur Nisha Bora accused Jatin Das of sexual harassment on Tuesday.
Tara producer who had earlier accused Alok Nath of rape, has filed a police complaint against the actor on Wednesday.
The Union minister further questioned as to why this storm has risen a few months before a general elections.
Multiple women in the last few days have come out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by Akbar when he was a journalist as the #MeToo movement swept social media, bringing to fore sordid tales of sexual harassment by influential men in different walks of life.
Twinkle Khanna was an active part of the meeting in which she insisted the makers of Housefull 4 on sacking Sajid Khan from the project.
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