Coercion not ‘consensual’: US journalist counters MJ Akbar on rape remark
MJ Akbar on Friday denied accusations of rape by Pallavi Gogoi, claiming he had a consensual relationship with her.
MJ Akbar on Friday denied accusations of rape by Pallavi Gogoi, claiming he had a consensual relationship with her.
In a separate statement, his wife Mallika Akbar also dismissed Gogoi's accusations, made in an article Friday, as a 'lie'.
Pallavi Gogoi alleged that she had to 'pay a very big price' for being the editor of the op-ed page of a prominent newspaper at the age of 23.
