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Survivor who accused Vikas Bahl of sexual harassment requests Bombay HC to drop her from the defamation case
Vikas Bahl had filed a defamation suit against the woman who accused her of sexual harassment. The survivor requested Bombay High Court to drop her from the case.
One of Phantom Film's former employees accused Vikas Bahl of sexual harassment. The anonymous woman stated that Bahl harassed her sexually when they were shooting for Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet in 2013. The survivor had informed Anurag Kashyap (one of the co-owners of Phantom) about this incident back then. However, she requested to keep her identity hidden and no legal action be taken. Now, amidst the Me Too movement, the news has again made headlines and even Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane called Vikas Bahl a sexual predator in their statements.
After these allegations laid on him, the Queen director filed a defamation suit against the woman, Anurag and Motwane. Last week, the hearing for the same was held at the Bombay High Court where the woman told the court not to disbelieve her story as it is true. Today, the woman requested the Bombay HC to drop her from the defamation suit. In her statement, she stated the because there were no steps taken to address serious grievances raised by her. She said, "I had an extremely deleterious effect on my professional and personal life and on my mental and emotional health."
Requesting the court to drop as a party in the Vikas Bahl case, she said, "I do not wish to relive any further what has transpired and I request that my presence in this proceedings be dispensed with and I dropped as a party. The absence of a written complaint or FIR does not and cannot take away from the truth of my statements. Why I have not made a police complaint is plain to see if one considers how formal process has failed to achieve any measure of accountability and lead only to the further victimisation of sexual assault survivors."
The survivor also stated that she had communicated about the incident in October 2015 at that time and for several months thereafter no steps were taken to deal with the serious complaint filed by her.
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