It was at 4 am in New Jersey on Thursday (June 13) when Tanushree Dutta received a call from her publicist stating that the Mumbai police had dismissed her sexual harassment case against Nana Patekar. The collapse of the case evidently came as a blow to Dutta, who sparked off Bollywood's #MeToo movement late last year.

Dutta, who had followed her case till the end, often pulling up the system for delaying the proceedings, is evidently perturbed. "This is just not done," she says, alluding to the fact that the news was being broken to her by her publicist. "The police is supposed to inform me or my advocate first. We were kept in the dark. The cops were in a hurry to reveal the developments to the media. I am appalled that they have given him [Patekar] a clean chit. I wasn't expecting justice, but the way things were done is sad. Why the hurry when the witnesses were yet to testify?"