Akbar has challenged the trial court's February 17 order acquitting Ramani in the case
Former Union Minister Mubashar Jawed Akbar approached the Delhi High Court to challenge a trial court order which had dismissed the criminal defamation case filed by him against journalist Ramani
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Former Union minister M J Akbar Tuesday told a Delhi court that journalist Priya Ramani should have taken recourse to law instead of making allegation of sexual misconduct against him on social media.
Akbar had filed the complaint against Ramani for allegedly defaming him by accusing him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago when he was a journalist
Priya Ramani told a Delhi court that she was targeted selectively through a defamation complaint by former M J Akbar to halt the avalanche of allegations of sexual misconduct against him
Mr Akbar tells this story with his usual diligence about facts and facets and his customary lucidity
The journalist, Pallavi Gogoi, narrated her alleged ordeal in a detailed column for the Washington Post, published on November 1
In the editorial, it also criticised the Maharashtra government's proposal of online sale and home delivery of liquor
More than half a dozen women journalists have accused Akbar of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour