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Karti Chidambaram threatens man for tweeting to his father about INX Media scam: Here is how he’s a repeat offender

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Karti Chidambaram threatens man for tweeting to his father about INX Media scam: Here is how he’s a repeat offender

Karti Chidambaram is a bully. He sends threats via direct messages (DM) on Twitter to those who question the father-son duo on their alleged involvement in INX Media scam. Former State Secretary, ABVP, Prakash Belwade-Patil had tweeted to former Union Minister P Chidambaram and took a dig at the latter restarting his column in a leading newspaper.


To that, Belwade-Patil replied saying how he should write a book on how he ‘made money’ and ‘skilled his son’ also.

Karti Chidambaram’s threatening message to Belwade-Patil

Speaking to OpIndia, Belwade-Patil said that Karti sent the above message to him after his tweet to his father P Chidambaram.

Read: Congress leader P Chidambaram gives veiled threat to the journalist asking him uncomfortable questions

However, this is not the firs time Karti has resorted to sending abusive and threatening messages to those who disagree with him. Twitter user Madhav had shared screenshots of his DMs where Karti had threatened him in 2016 and said, “I will get you one day. Mark my words.”


As we say, he is a repeat offender.


His habit of sending threatening DMs to netizens have also made him into some sort of a joke.


Karti Chidambaram is Congress MP From Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu and son of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. He is currently facing investigation in a number of cases including money laundering and having undisclosed foreign assets. He has been charged in cases like INX Media case and Aircel Maxis case and is facing probe from the central agencies. His father P Chidambaram has also been facing an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Aircel Maxis case. He was recently released on bail after having spent 106 days in Tihar jail.

Anaj Mandi fire: Another fire breaks out in same building where a fire incident claimed 43 lives yesterday

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Anaj Mandi fire: Another fire breaks out in same building where a fire incident claimed 43 lives yesterday

Four fire tenders rushed to the spot after another fire broke out in the same building in Anaj Mandi in New Delhi where the fire incident yesterday claimed lives of 43 people surfaced.

Plumes of smoke could be seen coming out of the building following which people from neighbouring building called up fire tenders to douse the fire. Since the building was vacated, there has been no loss of life in this fire.

Forty-three people were killed when a fire broke out at a luggage manufacturing factory on an early morning in Anaj Mandi area of Delhi on Sunday. Now, an FIR has been registered in connection with the fire incident and the case has been transferred to the crime branch for further investigation.

The factor owner Mohammed Rehan has now been detained by the Police. Earlier, it was reported that he was absconding. Over 50 people were inside the building when the fire broke out today morning. 15 fire tenders were sent to the spot after receiving information about the fire, but later 10-12 more fire tenders had to be sent due to the intensity of the fire. Now the fire has been completely doused, officials confirmed.

Ex-AAP MLA Alka Lamba live streamed her Facebook interaction with cat filters on

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Ex-AAP MLA Alka Lamba live streamed her Facebook interaction with cat filters on

Former AAP MLA and currently Congress leader Alka Lamba held a Facebook live event recently in Delhi. The person handling her Facebook account inadvertently left the ‘filters’ on where a tool lets you put various layers of ‘filters’ on your face so that one can look like a cat or a puppy or an old man with beard.

At one point, the person Lamba was interviewing had ‘goggles and hat’ filter which changed into a gold medal filter and eventually into a purple moustache filter.


Another lady also got old man with beard filter and then googly eyes filter making the people she was interviewing appear funny.

Read: Parody nation: Provincial govt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa live streamed its press conference with cat filter on

Lamba was speaking to the members of ‘Disabled Employees Association of Railway’ who were sitting on a dharna over delayed recruitment. The disabled protestors have been camping in Delhi’s Mandi House intersection since last several days over employment opportunities. They too appeared with various filters during the Facebook live event of Lamba.

Many people left funny comments on the faux pas at Lamba’s Facebook event.


One Sahab SRK informed Lamba that the person making the video is a ‘psycho’.

Read: Behind the scenes of Alka Lamba’s legendary tweet with crying selfie

The video has since been taken off from Facebook.

Lamba’s political journey

Lamba recently moved back to Congress after her very public breakup with Aam Aadmi Party where she took to Twitter to let everyone know how Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had removed her from WhatsApp group. After serving Congress in various capacities for over 20 years, she quit the grand old party to join AAP in December 2014. However, within 5 years of being in AAP, Lamba grew disillusioned with the party leadership. She finally resigned from the party in September 2019 after rumbling for over a year that she would leave the party.

PM Modi pays surprise visit to former union minister Arun Shourie at Pune hospital

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PM Modi pays surprise visit to former union minister Arun Shourie at Pune hospital

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to former Union Minister Arun Shourie at a Pune hospital, where he is undergoing treatment a head injury suffered last week.

“In Pune, I met former Union Minister Arun Shourie Ji. Enquired about his health and had a wonderful interaction with him. We pray for his long and healthy life,” Modi tweeted along with photographs of the meeting.


The former BJP minister turned bitter critic of the party was admitted at the hospital after he fainted and fell near his home in Lavasa near Pune on December 1 during a walk. 78-year-old Shourie sustained injuries on the back of his head, with internal injuries. He was rushed to a hospital at Hinjewadi near Pune, from where he was shifted to Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune, where he is being treated in the ICU.

Modi meets Arun Shourie
PM Modi with staff of Ruby Hall Clinic

PM Modi visited Shourie at the hospital at around 6 PM today, and spent about 45 minutes at the hospital. He talked to Shourie’s relatives outside his room after spending around 15 minutes with him. According to hospital sources the visit was not announced before. The PM was in Pune to attend the three-day conference of IGs and DGPs.

“The Prime Minister’s visit was a jovial one and we did have some time alone and I gave some suggestions,” Shourie told The Indian Express after Modi came to meet him at the hospital.

Read: Understanding Arun Shourie’s Modi Riddle

Arun Shourie was the central minister of Communications, Information Technology and Disinvestment in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1999 to 2004. But his relatonship with turned sour after Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014. Ahead of Lok Sabha elections this year, he had urged the opposition parties to work together to oust the BJP government. He was present at a grand rally of opposition parties held at Kolkata, and had alleged that the Modi government has lied on all counts.

He had also alleged that Modi government had created an atmosphere of intolerance in the country, and one of the petitioners to move the Supreme Court against the Rafale deal, along with Prashant Bhushan, Yashwant Sinha.

Shiv Sena to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament, defy its ‘secular’ allies in Maharashtra: Reports

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Shiv Sena to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament, defy its ‘secular’ allies in Maharashtra: Reports

The Shiv Sena is all set to defy its newfound allies and back the Citizenship Amendment Bill, if media reports are to be believed. As per reports, the Shiv Sena on Sunday decided to back the Bill which has faced severe opposition from ‘Secular’ parties which believe that it discriminates against Muslims.

The Congress will oppose the Bill in the Parliament, however, its ally in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena is expected to support it. One Sena MP told the Hindustan Times, “We are in favour of the bill as it is against infiltrators. It aims to help give citizenship rights to persecuted Hindus, Jains, Christians, and Buddhists in the three neighbouring counties.”

Also Read- Shiv Sena agrees to uphold ‘secular values’, work for ‘minorities’ in Maharashtra: Read details of Common Minimum Program

The Shiv Sena had recently broken off its alliance with its traditional partner, the BJP, and entered into a coalition government with the NCP and the Congress. In the Common Minimum Program of the Aghadi government, the Shiv Sena promised to uphold ‘secular values’ and work for ‘minorities’ in Maharashtra. 400 workers of the Shiv Sena had recently quit the party and join the BJP after it turned ‘Secular’.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill seeks to provide citizenship to religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who are being persecuted due to their religious identity. Despite the noble intentions of the Bill, it has been opposed tooth and nail by the ‘Secular’ parties. The bill will be tabled in the parliament this week. Although the rulling NDA is short of majority in Rajya, it is expected to get suppoprt of parties like AIADMK, BJD and YSRCP, with some parties remaining undecided till now. Therefore, the government is confident that the bill will be passed by the parliament in the ongoing winter session.

Unnao case: All you need to know about a ghastly crime born out of a troubled relationship

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Unnao case: All you need to know about a ghastly crime born out of a troubled relationship

New details have emerged on the Unnao rape and murder case, where it has been revealed that before the heinous crime, the victim was in a relationship with the main accused, and the relationship had turned sour after the family of the man refused to accept her. On Thursday, the 23-year-old rape victim was allegedly set ablaze by five men, including two men she had accused of raping her, at Hindu Nagar village in Unnao, while she was on her way to Rae Bareli.

Village resident and an eye witness, Ravindra Prakash said that even after being set on fire, the survivor ran for about a kilometre, and sought his help. He added that after he called the nearest post station by dialling 100 from his phone and she herself spoke to the police informing them about the incident, following which the police reached the crime spot and took her to hospital.

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The woman who had suffered 90 per cent burns died of a cardiac arrest on Friday night after hours of fighting at the Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi. The police have arrested the two prime accused, Shivam Trivedi and his cousin Shubham Trivedi, besides three of their family members — Harishankar Trivedi, Umesh Bajpai and Shivam’s father Ram Kishore Trivedi.

Read- Unnao police calls out Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, says her statement that there were 90 rape cases in past one year wrong

IG Lucknow, SK Bhagat, while talking to the media revealed that the victim was in a relationship with one of the main accused Shivam Trivedi, who had physically exploited her on the pretext of marrying her. In order to trick the victim, Shivam had on January 18, 2018, also signed a marriage contract on a stamp paper of Rs 50, which was also counter-signed by a notary.

Reportedly, the Unnao victim and Shivam had consensual sex in the past since Shivam had been making promises to the victim of marrying her. But things had fallen apart after Shivam’s parents refused to accept the girl as their daughter-in-law. After that Shivam also back-tracked and declined to marry her in a formal ceremony, and even threatened to kill her.

The victim alleged that after things became bitter, Shivam along with his cousin Shubham kidnapped her in December 2018 and thereafter raped her. Since Shivam’s family was influential, the police did not register an FIR then. The woman then approached a local court. After the intervention of a local court, the case was registered in Rae Bareli district in March.

In the FIR lodged on March 4, 2019, the victim had alleged that Shivam Trivedi, son of Hindu Nagar Gram Pradhan Savitri Devi, had raped her on the pretext of marriage. She had further alleged that Shivam’s cousin, Shubham, along with three others also joined him in raping her.

Read- If you were ‘ashamed as a society’ after the Hyderabad rape and murder, you are part of the problem

According to the IG, acting upon the FIR, police had sent Shivam the main accused to jail, who later got bail on November 30. After coming out of jail, Shivam was in constant pursuit to take revenge from the victim. Her brother also said that the pradhan’s family had been threatening them for the past few days to withdraw the rape case before Shivam set her on fire on Thursday.

Notably, the victim’s family had alleged that Shivam’s family had offered them Rs 3 lakh to get their daughter to marry off elsewhere. Since Shivam’s family was influential they had tried to create pressure on the victim’s family through the village Panchayat as well, failing which they resorted to this remorseless recourse.

Reportedly, the rape victim was going to Raebareli with her parents to pursue the case at 4 am on Wednesday when she was attacked. According to the reports, the rape accused and his friends dragged the woman outside of her village, took her into the fields and doused her in petrol before setting her on fire.

Read- Laws should be amended so accused in rape cases do not get bail: Sister of Hyderabad rape and murder victim

The bail order issued by Allahabad High Court on 25th November also mentions that Shivam had brought the woman to Raebareli on the pretext of giving her employment, and “forcibly committed rape with her by giving false assurance of solemnizing marriage with her”. The order states that the duo had signed the marriage agreement on 9th January this year, but Shivam had dishonoured this agreement after his parents refused to accept the relationship.

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Bail order of Shivam Trivedi

Importantly, the High Court order does not mention anything about the alleged kidnap and rape in December 2018 and mentions that the marriage agreement was signed in January 2019. The order only talks about rape on the pretext of marriage by Shivam, while remaining silent on the alleged gang-rape by Shivam and his friends.

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The family of Shivam has strongly refuted the allegations, saying that they are not guilty. They have said that the woman was pressurising Shivam to marry her, and had threatened to file rape charges against him if he refuses to marry her. They have alleged that the woman had said that she will send Shivam to jail for 10-20 years on rape charges. The family also pointed out that Shivam was found sleeping at his house by police after the woman was allegedly burnt by him. According to them, he would not be sleeping after committing such a crime. They also questioned the version of the woman that she ran for more than a kilometre after setting on fire.

Read- The Quint continues their ‘humanising’ project by whitewashing and creating sympathy wave for Hyderabad rape and murder accused

The police have said that despite suffering intense burns, the survivor had named the accused who she said set her ablaze. Unnao SP Vikram Veer said she named the two cousins and three other family members, and all of them have been arrested.

Besides assuring fast inquiry in the case and compensation for the family the Yogi government had also sent commissioner and IG-rank officers to the crime scene in Unnao promising to help the survivor in all possible ways.

Meerut: Muslim girl converts to Hinduism to marry her lover, accuses relatives of threatening to burn her alive

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Meerut: Muslim girl converts to Hinduism to marry her lover, accuses relatives of threatening to burn her alive

An interfaith couple from Meerut is being threatened by the girl’s family after she converted to marry her husband in a Temple. Her family members are not happy with the marriage and are issuing death threats against them. As per Navbharat Times, the girl is the daughter of one Abid Ali from Daurala town’s Shahpur-Jadid village in Meerut district.

According to reports, the girl left her home on the 14th of April and married Anujpal at the Arya Samaj Mandir in Deoband after converting her faith. Anujpal is a resident of the same village. Following that, she appeared before the Court to register her statements and the Court permitted her to live with her husband. Since then, they have been living at a house on rent.

Read: Gharwapsi: 98 converted Christians come back to Hinduism in Tripura

The girl is now accusing her relatives of threatening her life, as per a report in Patrika. It is alleged that they are threatening to burn her alive and murder her. It is also being alleged that only a week earlier, her relatives had made an attempt to kidnap her along with her husband. They soon reached the Police Station to request for security. The SP of the Crime Branch has ordered that they are provided with security. The couple has been assured that they will be provided complete security.

The couple has alleged that they cannot go back to their village in fear. They want to live at the husband’s home but the girl’s side is issuing death threats. In her complaint to the SP, the girl has also said that her father organized a Panchayat in the village along with others. According to her, it was declared in the Panchayat that if the couple dared to enter the village, they will be murdered.

Shashi Tharoor cheers for foreign interference, calls resolution on Kashmir in US House of Congress an ‘admirable effort’

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Shashi Tharoor cheers for foreign interference, calls resolution on Kashmir in US House of Congress an ‘admirable effort’

Senior Congress leader, Shashi Tharoor, consistent with the nature of his party endorsed a clear American attempt at meddling in our internal affairs. He labelled the introduction of a bipartisan resolution on Kashmir as an ‘admirable effort’ by representatives of the US House Congress when in reality, it was an attempt at meddling in India’s internal affairs.


The resolution was introduced by Indian-American Pramila Jayapal and it has been co-sponsored by Republican Congressman Steve Watkins. The resolution cannot be voted on in the Senate and does not have the force of law. Jayapal was urged not to introduce it by numerous members of the Indian-American community and her office received over 25,000 emails from Indian-Americans in addition to in-person meetings. However, she has decided to go ahead with it. There were also peaceful demonstrations outside her office against her move to table the resolution on Kashmir.

Read: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor joins UK firm which had hosted NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan in controversial Kashmir event

Thus, quite clearly, Jayapal does not even have the unequivocal support of Indian Americans. However, one person she does have support from is Shashi Tharoor. It is quite distressing that a senior leader of the main opposition party in India is cheering for a resolution that is effectively an interference in the internal affairs of India. India is a sovereign country and the least one would expect from Indian politicians is to protect the sovereignty of our nation. But Shashi Tharoor, it seems, will cheer for foreign entities that seek to undermine the sovereignty that we cherish as an independent country.

The proper response from Shashi Tharoor would have been to question the locus-standi of the US House of Congress in the matter of Kashmir. He should also have questioned what moral authority does the US have over India regarding ‘human rights violations’. The United States of America has violated the human rights of populations throughout its history and yet, it presumes to have the authority to lecture India about human rights. Instead of asking such legitimate questions, Shashi Tharoor calls it an ‘admirable effort’.

Read: Showing complete disregard for law of the land, ‘journalist’ Rana Ayyub illegally smuggles a foreign journalist in Kashmir for New Yorker article

As disgraceful as it is, Shashi Tharoor’s stance isn’t surprising. Not too long ago, another senior leader of the Congress party, Mani Shankar Aiyar, had famously asked for Pakistan’s help to ‘remove’ PM Modi and bring a Congress government to power. The Congress party has also regularly toed the Pakistani line on matters of national security, be it Surgical Strikes, Pulwama Terror Attack, Balakot Air Strikes or Kashmir.

Therefore, as distressing as it may seem, Shashi Tharoor’s endorsement of interference in Kashmir by the US House Representatives is consistent with the pattern of behaviour the Congress party has demonstrated in recent times. It also, perhaps, explains why the Congress has been reduced to merely 52 seats in the Lok Sabha.

US naval base shooting: Saudi Air Force trainee watched mass shooting videos before launching the attack

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US naval base shooting: Saudi Air Force trainee watched mass shooting videos before launching the attack

The Saudi Arabian Air Force trainee who had fatally shot three sailors at Pensacola naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week and watched videos of mass shootings along with three others before the attack, reports Associated Press.

According to a US official, the Saudi Arabian Air Force trainee named Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani and his three friends watched videos of mass shootings before he killed three and injured eleven others when he opened fire at a naval base in Florida.

Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, opened fire inside a classroom at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola early Friday morning. The police had quickly responded to the scene and shot dead the shooter. The suspect was a second lieutenant attending the aviation school at the base. He referred to the United States as ‘a nation of evil’ before he went on his shooting rampage.

Six other Saudi nationals were arrested near the base shortly after the attack, as investigators began to probe a terror link. Three of the six were seen filming the entire incident as it unfolded. Two other Saudi students watched it from a car, an official said.

Read: Six Saudi nationals arrested after Saudi Air Force trainee Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani opens fires at US Naval base, 3 killed

Following the deadly attack, officials investigating the case are working to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism. US President Donald Trump has indicated he would review policies governing foreign military training in the United States.

Ten Saudi students were being held on the base on Saturday while several others were unaccounted for, said another official.

A US official on Friday said the FBI was investigating social media posts to determine whether he acted alone or was connected to any broader group. Two other US officials speaking to AP also confirmed that authorities were investigating whether the attack was terrorism-related.

Meanwhile, President Trump has also declined to say whether the shooting was terrorism-related. The President had earlier tweeted his condolences to the families of the victims on Friday and noted that Saudi King Salman had reassured him in a telephone call that the shooter “in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people.”

Reportedly, the United States has a robust training program for Saudis, providing assistance in the US and in the kingdom. Currently, there are more than 850 Saudis in the United States for various training activities. They are among more than 5,000 foreign students from 153 countries in the U.S. going through military training.

According to Fox News, Saudis have been received training at the Pensacola Naval base since the 1970s, with as many as 20 students from the Middle Eastern country studying in each class.

However, many of these trainees belong to the Saudi Royal Family, putting pressure on officials to pass pilots through the training program in an attempt to preserve diplomacy with the US ally. Many US military pilots have complained for decades that some of the Saudi pilots are not safe flyers.

NAS Pensacola has more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel, according to its website. The Naval Base in Florida is one of the US Navy’s most historic and storied bases. It sprawls along the waterfront southwest of downtown Pensacola and dominates the economy of the surrounding area.

#MeToo: One of the accusers of Utsav Chakraborty retracts, says ‘I was unnecessarily cruel about a minor thing’

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#MeToo: One of the accusers of Utsav Chakraborty retracts, says ‘I was unnecessarily cruel about a minor thing’

The Utsav Chakraborty-Mahima Kukreja saga continues to unravel. On Saturday, Aditi Murti, one of Utsav’s accusers, retracted her allegation on the social media platform. She shared screenshots of the conversation she had with Mahima Kukreja during the whole controversy last year.

Murti said that she was ‘unnecessary cruel’ about a ‘very minor’ thing. She also said that Utsav did not try to harass her or send her anything inappropriate or encourage her to do anything illegal.


In the screenshot, Aditi Murti can be seen telling Mahima that when she was 17, and Utsav’s username was @SatanBhagat, he had sent his number to her randomly. And when she asked him publicly what was it about, he told that he was ‘just curious’. Then a week later, she received texts from him saying that the earlier messages were from his friends. She says that she found it extremely weird since her age was displayed publicly.

Mahima, for her part, when she is told that Aditi has a ‘story’ about Utsav, tells her “Please tell me. Please.” After Aditi has finished recounting her experience, Mahima tells her, “He was trying to slide into your DMs knowing you’re underage? God this guy is a serial creep.”

Aditi Murti in her apology said that she had believed the allegations that were being made against Utsav Chakraborty and she pointed out the incident ‘as a way of doing the right thing’. However, she did not anticipate the scale of the outrage or that his life would be ‘destroyed’ as a consequence. She made the thread so that Utsav’s ‘name is cleared regarding my allegation’.

Read: Audio clip emerges which claims #MeToo activist Mahima Kukreja’s lawyer-sister threatened standup comic Utsav Chakraborty

The allegations she made during the Me Too movement were not worth putting out and it ‘diluted’ the movement, Aditi Murti said. She also says that she believes Utsav was telling the truth when he said a few weeks ago that a few of his friends had pranked him by sending his phone number to random women on the internet.

Aditi Murti said, “I would like to reiterate that  @Wootsaw (Utsav’s username on Twitter) did not do anything illegal, did not send me any lewd messages, nothing. I was sent his number and some prank texts by his friends from his account, and I have enough reason to believe it.”

Read: If we get into it legally, you’ll also derail movement: Mahima Kukreja allegedly to Utsav Chakraborty in second part of viral audio

She added, “I believe I tried my best to only state that it is odd or weird to receive random texts, and that my incidence carries no heft because neither can I prove it and nor was it serious. However, media hype, misreporting and exaggerations spun this into something horrific and wrong.” Aditi Murti also took full responsibility for her own actions and apologized to Utsav for it.

The whole controversy was reignited when an audio clip went viral on social media where Utsav Chakraborty and Mahima Kukrej are heard having a conversation where Kukreja’s sister threatened Utsav with legal action if he released screenshots that could prove his innocence. Later, another longer audio clip emerged where Mahima Kukreja can be heard telling Utsav that the movement will be derailed if both of them got involved in a legal battle.

Read: Mudslinging continues as #MeToo activist Mahima Kukreja accuses standup comic Utsav Chakraborty of maligning her

Following the release of the audio clips, Utsav Chakraborty initiated a crusade against Mahima Kukreja on social media. Mahima then accused Utsav of maligning her reputation. After that, Utsav accused Tanmay Bhat of AIB fame of lying when Tanmay said that the AIB had confronted him about his behaviour. Bizarrely enough, Utsav seemed to suggest that he had sent an unsolicited d*ck pic because he is ‘socially clumsy’.

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