#Breaking: A woman alleges MJ Akbar raped her when she was a journalist at the Asian Age in 1994

Weeks after over a dozen-odd journalists levelled serious allegations of sexual misconduct against MJ Akbar, a US-based journalist has now come forward to share her story of being raped by then editor of The Asian Age newspaper in the 90s.

Pallavi Gogoi, who wrote her harrowing experience in The Washington Post, said Akbar was brutal in his sexual attack as he raped her in a Jaipur hotel. According to The Washington Post, it ‘reached out to Sandeep Kapur, M.J. Akbar’s lawyer, for comment on the accounts laid out in this piece. The response: “My client states that these [incidents and allegations] are false and expressly denied