#MeToo and Due Process
A common question that has been skirting the broad narratives of #MeToo is that if the movement has gone far beyond the boundaries of due process and legality. In April 2019, a few months after the #MeToo movement expanded in India, then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was accused of sexual harassment by a former Supreme Court of India employee. The committee that presided over investigation of the allegations included Gogoi himself, and unsurprisingly he was cleared of the charges. Prior to the case against Gogoi, in October 2018, journalist Priya Ramani accused MJ Akbar of sexual harassment. The former junior external affairs minister registered a 41-page defamation case against her. She won the case two years later when the court acquitted her of all charges. The phrase “Me Too” was coined by African American activist Tarana Burke in 2006 to raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault within the society, and help the survivors. It was the fall of 2017 when