Founder and former CEO of YouTube channel The Viral Fever Arunabh Kumar has been acquitted in a sexual harassment case filed against him in 2017.
In the comlplaint, the woman had claimed that the incident took place in June 2014. She had claimed that Kumar outraged her modesty . The complaint, however, was not registered then. The woman claimed that she registered the complaint in 2017 when she got to know that Kumar had behaved similarly with another woman in 2017.
The complaint was registered at the MIDC police station.
The court found discrepancies and contradictions in the case. It was also not clear why the informant took three years to register the complaint.
"There is an unreasonable and unexplained delay in filing the FIR which raised the clouds on the case of the prosecution. Even it can be said that the said complaint is filed out of grudge or rivalry on the reason of business between the accused and informant,” the court order stated.
Additional public prosecutor Khade appeared for state. Advocate Rohini Wagh appeared for Kumar.
