After Bollywood celebrities such as Alok Nath, filmmaker-actor Rajat Kapoor, actor Rohit Roy, singer Kailash Kher and screenwriter Chetan Bhagat, singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s name has now come up in the #MeToo firestorm. A former flight attendant has accused the singer of sexually harassing her at Hotel Hindustan International in Kolkata in the summer of 1998.
The singer has reacted to the sexual harassment accusation saying, “I wasn’t born at that time.”
“Somebody told me over the call. I was not born at that time. I have never gone to pubs in my life. You’ll never find me at any page 3 or filmy parties. My name sells. If someone’s benefiting from it, good. Sometimes earning their bread and butter with my name, it’s fine,” Abhijeet Bhattacharya was quoted as saying to Indian Express.
Ignoring the fact that the flight attendant mentioned a friend of his in the account, the singer went on to say he doesn’t want to give attention to fat and ugly girls, who are now coming out to blame people.
“I don’t know against whom should I take action. Why should I give attention to that person? You are giving it importance not me. Most of the people who are coming out right now are dirty, ugly people. Koi mota hai koi patla hai. No one deserves (the attention). Just to grab some attention they are coming out. Most of the fat and ugly girls are blaming and I wasn’t born at that time,” Abhijeet Bhattacharya concluded with a laugh.
“Abhijeet Bhattacharya grabbed me by wrist and pulled me closer for refusing to dance or get intimate with him. “He twists my wrists, pulling me towards him and screaming in my ear, what do you think of yourself, wait till I teach you a lesson, almost kissing and nibbling me on my left year”, the woman wrote on her Twitter account.
