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TVF's Arunabh Kumar in trouble after multiple women accuse him of molesting them
After an anonymous post accusing TVF's Arunabh Kumar of sexual assault, more women have opened up about their harrowing experience.
In the aftermath of an anonymous post alleging TVF’s founder Arunabh Kumar of molestation, more women have accused Kumar of sexual assault at the workplace.
It started when a TVF woman employee took to Medium.com and opened up about the harassment that instantly went viral.
Talking to a popular news portal another woman revealed her unpleasant experience and said, “I was in a meeting at Arunabh’s house with three other women. The meeting was taking place in the hall of the apartment. Arunabh left the meeting in the middle and went inside. Since he was gone for quite a while, I went inside the next room to call him. Suddenly, I felt someone from behind grope my breasts, and when I turned around, it was Arunabh. I was in shock. He was looking straight into my eyes. I rushed out of the room. The meeting resumed shortly after and lasted another 20 minutes. At the end of it, I walked out of TVF, never to return.”
Narrating a shocking incident a girl took to Facebook and wrote, “ To everyone doubting if this is true, know that this girl definitely isn't the only girl he has been a sleaze to.I was shooting with him in the TVF office, for a web series I was directing last year. The first time we met at the recce, he asked me to send him my work, which I did out of courtesy. When we met on the day of the shoot, I asked him if he had seen the links. To this he said - why don’t you come over to my place and we can watch them together. We can also watch a movie. Which movie do you want to watch? I politely evaded the question and continued briefing him about the shoot. As I talk, he finds some lame excuse to place his hand on my hand (which was on the table in his glass cabin). In the middle of the shoot, he touches my shoulder tattoo and tells me he finds it sexy. After every other shot, he would come over to the monitor to see how the shot looks, but at the same time graze his hand against my waist. All this in a 5-hour shoot. I can only imagine what she must have gone through for 2 years!”
And another woman who reported an assault told a news portal, “ Early last year, I was shooting with Arunabh in the TVF office, for a web series on people who changed professions to follow their passions. The first time we met at the recce, he asked me to send him my work, which I did out of courtesy. When we met on the day of the shoot, I asked him if he had seen the links. To this he said – why don’t you come over to my place and we can watch them together. We can also watch a movie. Which movie do you want to watch? I politely evaded the question and continued briefing him about the shoot. I had to speak to my producer to ensure that I was not left alone with him at any point of time. Later when I spoke to someone at my agency about it, she said that she too had heard similar accounts of Arunabh. At the end of that shoot, I didn’t retaliate and shrugged it off. On seeing the medium.com post, I realised that I shouldn’t have. If this is how he could behave with me, without knowing me, within 5 hours, I can’t imagine how he’d behave with women working for him for years."
While TVF in an official statement had outrightly denied the allegation that surfaced a day earlier, it is now to be seen how the Youtube giant will react in the light of these many new complaints.
