{"id":308633,"date":"2019-01-29T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308633"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:35:32","slug":"mj-akbar-case-delhi-court-summons-journalist-priya-ramani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mj-akbar-case-delhi-court-summons-journalist-priya-ramani\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Akbar case: Delhi Court summons journalist Priya Ramani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303987 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mj-akbar-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mj-akbar-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mj-akbar-502x420.jpg 502w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/mj-akbar.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi court on Tuesday issued summons to journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ\u00a0Akbar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked Priya Ramani to appear before the court on February 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akbar\u2019s counsel had told the court that Ramani had damaged Akbar\u2019s reputation which he had built up over the years through hard work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akbar filed a defamation case against Priya Ramani after his name cropped up on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 22, a Delhi court reserved its order on whether to summon journalist Priya Ramani as an accused in a defamation case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Priya Ramani had accused Akbar of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, which was denied by him. Moreover, several women came out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by Akbar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akbar, however had termed the allegations were \u201cfalse, fabricated and deeply distressing\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also claimed that Priya Ramani\u2019s tweets in October last year had defamed him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Tuesday issued summons to journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ\u00a0Akbar.\u00a0 Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked Priya Ramani to appear before the court on February 25. Akbar\u2019s counsel had told the court that Ramani had damaged Akbar\u2019s reputation which he had built up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3394,5562,10659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308634,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308633\/revisions\/308634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}