On Tuesday, an FIR was filed with the Versova Police on the basis of actor Payal Ghosh’s complaint accusing film director Anurag Kashyap of sexual misconduct in 2014.
A Police Officer said they would investigate the matter as the complaint was linked to an incident dating 6 years back, before deciding further course of action. Several celebrities, including three actors named by Ghosh in her allegations as Kashyap’s victims, have refuted her claims.
Ghosh & her counsel tried to file an FIR at Oshiwara Police Station on Monday but were asked to come back with a written complaint. Payal’s counsel Nitin Satpute said, “An FIR has been lodged for rape, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement & outraging the modesty of a woman. The statement of the victim has been recorded.” He said they were told to file it at Versova Police Station as the incident had occurred under its jurisdiction.
Payal first tweeted about the alleged assault on Sept 19, tagging the office of the PM seeking action. When asked why she decided to speak up now after so many years, she told a news channel, “I tried to say it before also when the #MeToo movement had started, but my family & friends stopped me... your career will be spoiled,’ they told me.” She also said she did not have proof.
In response to the allegations, Kashyap has tweeted a statement by his counsel: “My client, Anurag Kashyap, has been deeply pained by the false allegations… these... are completely false, malicious & dishonest.”
3 actors—Richa Chadha, Mahie Gill & Huma Qureshi—who, Payal alleged, were mentioned by Kashyap as having been exploited by him have refuted the allegations. One of them has even sent her a legal notice for defamation.
On Monday Richa Chadha tweeted: “I have sent a legal notice to Payal Ghosh for ‘falsely (dragging)’ my name into her allegations...” Richa on Tuesday tweeted: “Am sending a registered post also so there are no excuses.” Richa’s lawyer Saveena Bedi Sachar issued a statement, “Our client… condemns the act of her name being unnecessarily & falsely dragged in a defamatory manner into controversies & allegation being recently raised by third parties.”
On Tuesday, Huma Qureshi tweeted, “Anurag & I last worked together in 2012-13 & he is a dear friend & an extremely talented director. In my personal experience & to my knowledge he has neither misbehaved with me or anyone else. However, anyone who claims to be abused must report it to the authorities, the police & the judiciary... I feel angry not just for myself but also every woman whose years of hard work... gets reduced to such baseless conjecture & allegations in their workplace.”
Reacting to it, Mahie Gill had said, “It is very easy to take names just because he launched us. All I want to say is that I have known Anurag for a long time now. We may not be in touch but I am sure Anurag can never speak like this about any of his actors.”
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