Tanushree Dutta on Wednesday received legal notices from Nana Patekar and Vivek Agnihotri. Dutta had gone on record explaining how she was harassed by Nana Patekar and Vivek Agnihotri at the starting of her career. Reacting strongly to the notices,Dutta said, " This is the price you pay for speaking out against harassment,humiliation and injustice in India."
The actress claimed that both Nana's and Vivek Agnihotr'is teams are on a smear campaign against her by constructing 'outright lies and misinformation on social media platforms and other public platforms'. She also alleged that efforts are made to silence her voice. Dutta said, " Today while I was at home and the police personnel posted outside my home were on a lunch break two unnamed suspicious individuals tried getting into our home uninvited but were stopped just in time by security personnel in the building.Later the police came back from their break and secured the premises again.Violent threats are being issued against me by the MNS party."
Expressing trepidation about often long drawn legal processes, the actress said, " I'm being threatened to be dragged into the court and legal system of India which we all know can keep a woman and her supporters as well as media silent on the pretext of "matter subjudice" but can also further be used to harass her and drain her out financially."
Portraying a possibly grim future, she said echoing experience of other victims , " "Tareek pe Tareek pe tareek" and the dawn of justice never arrives and her whole life goes waste awaiting justice while witnesses are intimidated,discredited or simply drained of their will to stand up..False witnesses supporting perpetrators conjured up to furthur weaken her case.Court cases can run for decades without a hope for a conclusion.At the end an empty shell remains,broken hopes,A life wasted,defeated.This is the age old saga of survivors in our nation."
Explaining circumstance of her leaving the industry, actress said, " I walked away once from the same environment that was created for me 10 years ago..Found God ,found my healing,found my peace and a new life in United States of America.And now I stand to lose this new life too if I allow myself to get embroiled in the court system of India.And you wanted to know why the me too movement hasn't happened in India...This is why...".
