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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap denies charges of sexual harassment
Anurag Kashyap

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap denies charges of sexual harassment

| @indiablooms | 02 Oct 2020, 04:11 pm

Mumbai/UNI: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Friday denied all the allegations of sexual harassment levelled by TV actor Payal Ghosh.

Kashyap's lawyer Priyanka Khimani, here today termed the allegations “absolute lie”, saying her client was in Sri Lanka for a film shoot and was not present in India in August 2013 when the alleged incident took place.

“Kashyap has provided documentary proof of the fact that throughout August 2013, he was away in Sri Lanka,” she said.

The filmmaker had yesterday responded to a police summon and recorded his statement with the investigating officer of Varsova police station.

Accordingly, he has denied that any such alleged incident ever took place and scoffed all the charges leveled against him in the matter, the lawyer said.

Khimani said, “These sudden, belated allegations of an alleged incident of August 2013 have been widely publicised by the complainant (Ghosh) for the purpose of vilifying Kashyap, irrespective of the outcome of the judicial process.”

Though expressing confidence that the falsity of the complaint is now exposed, Kashyap is also apprehensive that the complainant would “alter her version of events in the investigative process as well”.

Expressing distress over the false and reckless allegations against him, Kashyap has sought severe action against Ghosh accusing her of “misusing the criminal justice system and for hijacking the MeToo Movement for her ulterior motives.

He would vigorously pursue the legal remedies and is confident that “justice will prevail”, Khimani added.

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