Vikas Bahl lashes out at ex-employee for not taking her allegation to court

The #MeToo movement has been taking new twists and turns every day and new names have been coming to light. Last four weeks have been very surprising as many women have come up with their #MeToo stories. Vikas Bahl, who has been accused by a former employee of Phantom Films of sexual harassment, has lashed out at her for not taking the case to court.

The victim recently released a statement saying that she will not be filing a complaint against Bahl as she is still suffering at the hands of Vikas even after three years and she doesn’t want to get involved into litigation. She has signed a statement blaming the police and the administration for not taking legal action. She said, “Processes have failed to achieve any measure of accountability, and lead only to further victimization of sexual assault survivors.”

As per the latest development, the ‘Queen’ director Vikas has lashed out at the accuser for refusing to take her allegation to court. As quoted by DNA, Vikas Bahl’s advocate Janak Dwarkadas said, “There cannot be such an easy way out. The allegation has ruined my (client’s) life, but it is immaterial to her. Now, I won’t have the opportunity to prove my innocence. My reputation in the industry has been tarnished at the hands of an alleged victim, who does not want to take any legal recourse.”

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Vikas Bahl had filed a 10-crore defamation case against Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. As per a report in DNA, Bahl in his defamation suit has sought by way of ad-interim relief an injunction against his former partners Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. His advocate said, “If they (Kashyap-Motwane) feel so strong that justice should be done to the woman, they should remember that they too were her employers and sat on the complaint for three years without taking any action.”

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