The blog written by an anonymous user 'Indian Fowler' alleging that The Viral Fever founder and CEO Arunabh Kumar molested her on several occasions has opened a can of worms. Several women have now come out with allegations of sexual harassment by Kumar. In the midst of this, an anonymous user on Reddit has alleged that Rohan Joshi, one of the co-founders of stand-up comic group All India Bakchod (AIB) groped her after she turned down his advances.
In the post, which has since been deleted, the person, who goes by the user handle shadenfreude557 wrote about how awestruck she was when Joshi spoke to her. "He started flirting with me. I was awestruck just by the fact that a celebrity found me so pretty. So when later he asked if he could drop me home I said yes," the person has alleged.
Read the full post here:
I was groped by Rohan Joshi @mojorojo [np] from india
"I am sharing my experience here anonymously because he had threatened me to not say anything to anyone. I met Rohan at a bar in Mumbai about a year back, he started to flirt with me and tbh I was awestruck just by the fact that a celebrity found me so pretty. So when later he asked if he could drop me home I said yes. When we reached my home he tried to kiss me, when I refused and pushed him back he started shouting and abusing me saying 'how dare I refuse him!?' I started crying then so he calmed down and apologised. But just as I was about to get out of the car he groped my boobs and said 'f*** off s***' This experience left me petrified, I had just moved to Mumbai 3 months before the incident and I was living alone away from my family. I couldn't share this experience with anyone because of the fear that no one will believe me as he is such a huge celebrity on social media. I couldn't even share the experience with my family as I went against their wishes to move to Mumbai for my job. They would have worried too much and wanted me to come back. But I wanted to share my experience now as these celebrities cannot get away by doing anything they please, they cannot sexually harass women and think that women will be okay with it just because they are rich or famous.
Edit : can't believe that people are ridiculing me just because I used the term 'boobs' What's wrong with boobs, again? I should refer them as 'breasts' or otherwise I am not a decent women ? This was the reason I didn't share this incident with anyone for an entire year and am afraid of filing a complaint." (sic)
Joshi, on his part, has strongly denied the allegations. Taking to Twitter, he said that he was willing to be probed and even tagged the Mumbai police.
UPDATE: The Reddit user has now retracted the statement. Read the full story here
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