Priya Ramani to face defamation notice by MJ Akbar

Union Minister M J Akbar on Monday filed a defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani who was one among the several women who leveled sexual harassment allegations on him.

Akbar, through his advocates Karanjawala and Company filed the case in Delhi's Patiala House.

Akbar who returned to India ensnared in sexual harassment allegations on Sunday refuted all the charges against leveled by a number of women as “false”and "fabricated".

Talking about Priya Ramani, he said in a statement yesterday: "She began this campaign a year ago with a magazine article.

She did not, however, name me as she knew it was an incorrect story. When asked recently why she had not named me, she replied, in a Tweet: Never named him because he didn't 'do' anything."

"If I didn't do anything, where and what is the story? There's no story. But a sea of innuendo, speculation and abusive diatribe has been built around something that never happened. Some are total, unsubstantiated hearsay; others confirm, on the record, that I didn’t do anything," he said.

On the other hand, Priya assured that she would face the suit