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Several women have stepped up to accuse The Viral Fever (TVF) founder and CEO, Arunabh Kumar, of sexual harassment after an anonymous Medium post with similar claims went viral.
The Medium post does not reveal any details about the woman’s identity, except the fact that she is from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, and that she was fresh out of college when she joined the company.
A few hours after the Medium article started doing the rounds on social media, an alleged victim took to Facebook to narrate a similar incident involving Kumar. She alleged that Arunabh harassed her during a shoot last year.
“As I talk, he finds some lame excuse to place his hand on my hand (which was on the table in his glass cabin). In the middle of the shoot, he touches my shoulder tattoo and tells me he finds it sexy. After every other shot, he would come over to the monitor to see how the shot looks, but at the same time graze his hand against my waist,” she wrote in a post on Facebook.
Calling the Medium post slander, Kumar said that social media has already declared him as an offender. In the same vein, he said that he is “ready to address all the allegations” against him.
Immediately after the Mumbai Mirror story broke, Twitter was abuzz with reactions on the same. Most people picked on Kumar’s quote about being a single, heterosexual male.
(With inputs from Mumbai Mirror.)
(The original comment to Mumbai Mirror quoted Arunabh Kumar as inviting “persecution” if found guilty. On double-checking with TVF, The Quint found that he had instead said “prosecution”.)
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