{"id":309773,"date":"2019-02-25T06:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309773"},"modified":"2019-02-25T06:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:16:26","slug":"mj-akbar-defamation-case-delhi-court-grants-bail-to-journalist-priya-ramani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mj-akbar-defamation-case-delhi-court-grants-bail-to-journalist-priya-ramani\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Akbar defamation case: Delhi court grants bail to journalist Priya Ramani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309775 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/akbar-priya-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/akbar-priya-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/akbar-priya.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi&#8217;s Patiala House Court on Monday granted bail to journalist Priya Ramani in the defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ Akbar over the #MeToo allegations against him. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramani was granted bail on a personal bail bond of Rs 10,000. The court has scheduled the next hearing in the matter on March 8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media persons post-hearing, Ramani said that the truth is in her defence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramani was the first woman to accuse Akbar of sexual harassment during the #MeToo movement. After that multiple women came out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by Akbar when he was a journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi&#8217;s Patiala House Court on Monday granted bail to journalist Priya Ramani in the defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ Akbar over the #MeToo allegations against him. \u00a0 Ramani was granted bail on a personal bail bond of Rs 10,000. The court has scheduled the next hearing in the matter on March 8.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[3394,5562,10659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309773"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309776,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309773\/revisions\/309776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}