#MeToo: Chetan Bhagat says Ira Trivedi's charges against him false

NEW DELHI: Author Chetan Bhagat on Monday claimed that

Ira Trivedi

's allegations of sexual harassment against him were "false" and posted a screenshot of 2013 email sent to him by Trivedi to buttress his claim.


The author who was accused of sexual harassment by Trivedi tweeted a screenshot of an email to defend the charges levelled against him.

"So who wanted to kiss whom? @iratrivedi’s self-explanatory email from 2013 to me, esp last line, easily shows her claims from 2010 are false, and she knows this too. This mental harassment of me and my family has to stop. Please don’t harm a movement with #fakecharges #harassed," he tweeted.


In the ongoing

#MeToo

movement, writer Ira Trivedi, on October 13, had detailed her experience of being sexually harassed by Chetan Bhagat and Suhel Seth.

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