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MJ Akbar refutes rape charge, says relationship was consensual
Updated On: 03 November, 2018 08:52 AM IST | | Agencies
US-based journalist Pallavi Gogoi accuses MJ Akbar of using his position to prey on her; wife dismisses allegation
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M J Akbar, who resigned as union minister, at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi. Pic/PTI
Former Union Minister M J Akbar on Friday denied accusations of rape by US-based journalist Pallavi Gogoi, claiming he had a consensual relationship spanning several months with her but it ended "perhaps not on the best note". In a separate statement, his wife Mallika Akbar also dismissed Gogoi's accusations, made in a Washington Post article on Friday, as a "lie".
"Somewhere around 1994, Pallavi Gogoi and I entered into a consensual relationship that spanned several months," Akbar, who recently resigned as junior foreign minister following a spate of #MeToo allegations, said in a statement. "This relationship (with Gogoi) gave rise to a lot of talk and later caused significant strife in my family life as well. This consensual relationship ended, perhaps not on the best note," he said. In her statement, Mallika admitted she knew about the relationship between Akbar and Gogoi and the relationship caused unhappiness and discord in her family.
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