Stage harassment allegation: Former TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty files police complaint

NEW DELHI: Actress and erstwhile Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty has lodged a constabulary ailment connected Monday alleging harassment during a unrecorded signifier show astatine a taste programme successful West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The incidental reportedly occurred precocious Sunday nighttime during an lawsuit organised successful the Nayagram country of Bongaon town. According to the complaint, 1 of the organisers allegedly climbed onto the signifier mid-performance, stopped the programme abruptly and asked the histrion to permission without anterior communication.In her ailment to the Bongaon constabulary station, submitted via email, Chakraborty named an organiser, Tanmay Shastri, accusing him of forcibly interrupting her show and asking her to measurement down astir midnight.

She aboriginal said the occurrence near her feeling “deeply humiliated”.The histrion besides took to the societal media level X to stock her relationship of the incident, linking it to broader concerns astir the dignity and information of women and artists. Referring to the timing of the incidental connected Republic Day, Chakraborty wrote that portion the state speaks of state and equality, “the independency and dignity of women and artists are inactive excessively easy violated”.

Explaining the series of events, she said she had been invited by the Naya Gopal Gunj Yubak Sango Club to execute astatine the lawsuit and was asked to permission the signifier mid-performance, successful afloat presumption of the audience. She claimed that derogatory remarks were made connected the microphone, which she said not lone humiliated her but besides damaged her nationalist image. “I near softly to support decorum,” she said, adding that she has present approached ineligible authorities and believes successful owed process.“If I support quiescent today, this behaviour volition beryllium repeated tomorrow. Dignity connected signifier is non-negotiable,” Chakraborty said successful her post.However, the organisers denied the allegations, saying the programme was stopped owed to clip restrictions. Shastri claimed the histrion arrived astir an hr precocious and that constabulary support for the lawsuit was valid lone until midnight. He said that the determination to halt the programme was taken keeping successful caput upcoming committee examinations of students successful the area.“Mimi Chakraborty was neither insulted nor harassed, and the allegations made by her are wholly baseless,” Shastri said, alleging alternatively that her information unit misbehaved with him. He further claimed that the actress’s bodyguards forcibly removed women members of the nine who had travel connected signifier to felicitate her.Stating that the organisers had nary volition to disrespect the actor, Shastri added that if she felt insulted owed to immoderate miscommunication, the nine regretted the incident.Police said that the ailment has been taken connected grounds and further probe into the substance is underway.