India’s MeToo movement hits roadblocks
Demonstrators shout slogans after a panel of judges dismissed a sexual harassment complaint against India's Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in New Delhi on Tuesday. By Niha Masih Niha Masih Foreign correspondent covering India Bio Follow May 8 at 7:00 AM NEW DELHI — India’s #MeToo moment erupted on social media late last year as women shared stories they had been afraid to tell. But just six months later, two high-profile cases are exposing the movement’s limits.
On Monday, the court announced that the panel had found no substance to the woman’s allegations and that its report would remain secret. On Tuesday, women protesting outside the Supreme Court were detained by police. Another high-profile #MeToo case is also making its way through the legal system this week. Last fall, more than a dozen women had accused M.J. Akbar, a government minister and former newspaper editor, of sexual harassment, misconduct and rape, including in an account published in The Washington Post. Akbar denied the allegations.
Women who allege harassment have been targeted by defamation suits in the past. For the past three years, a court in Delhi has heard a defamation case filed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist against a woman and her lawyer, even as the trial against him for sexual harassment drags on in another.
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