Columnist, screenwriter, and India's best selling author Chetan Bhagat has apologised through his facebook post after a tweet sharing his alleged WhatsApp conversation with a woman journalist, accused him of sexual harassment, went viral on social media. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Chetan Bhagat said that said he wanted "to make a couple of points about the screenshots that someone has shared" in reference to the chat where the writer is seeing to be "wooing" a woman journalist through a personal chat via social messaging app Whatsapp. 

The author through his post clarified that his note on Facebook was written after he had a discussion with his wife Anusha Bhagat. While addressing the apology Bhagat wrote, "I am really sorry to person concerned. The screenshots, are of course real, and I am sorry if you felt they were wrong I hope you will accept my apology."

Screenshots of Bhagat 'wooing' a woman journalist on WhatsApp appeared on social media in connection to the ongoing #MeToo movement. Here's what the author shared on his Facebook page: