Relationship based on coercion is not consensual : Palavi Gogoi responds to MG Akbar

A day after former minister MJ Akbar responded to a rape accusation from journalist Pallavi Gogoi by saying they had a “consensual relationship,” Pallavi responded in a tweet on Saturday saying, “A relationship based on coercion, and abuse of power, is not consensual.”

“Rather than taking responsibility for his abuse of me and his serial predation of other young women who have courageously come forward, Akbar has insisted – just like other infamous serial sexual abusers of women – that the relationship was consensual. It was not. A relationship that is based on coercion, and abuse of power, is not consensual. I stand by every word in my published account. I will continue to speak my truth so that other women who have been sexually assaulted by him know it is okay for them to come forward and speak their truth too.”