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Following her acquittal in the defamation case filed against her by former Union minister MJ Akbar, journalist Priya Ramani said that she felt vindicated on behalf of all the women who have spoken out against sexual harassment.
“Sexual harassment has got the attention it deserves,” Ramani told reporters outside the chamber in Rouse Avenue Court, minutes after the verdict. “This matter has been about women, it hasn’t been about me. I happened to represent all the women who spoke up...the women who spoke up before me and the women who spoke up after me.”
“It feels amazing, truly does,” she added.
Her counsel Rebecca John said that this was the most important case of her career. “It was very very difficult,” John told Bar and Bench. “But in that sense, when you fight powerful people and you have just truth on your side, the journey becomes very, very relevant to you personally, and I think this was the most important case of my life.”
Meanwhile, dozens of people took to Twitter to congratulate Ramani. Here is a compilation of a few such tweets:
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