The Mumbai Police has summoned The Viral Fever (TVF) founder Arunabh Kumar on Wednesday, after a woman claiming to be a former TVF employee, lodged an FIR with the police, reports VCCircle. Kumar was charged under IPC Section 354(A) which deals with punishment for sexual harassment and IPC Section 509 for “insulting the modesty of a woman.” MediaNama has written to TVF for a comment and will update the story once the respond. The police said in a statement that they are yet to investigate the matter after procuring a full statement from Kumar. A Hindustan Times report said that the complaints filed against Kumar are non-bailable offences; police also said that they would “oppose” any bail plea submitted to them. The HT report added that Mumbai Police went looking for Kumar at TVF’s office premises, but he wasn’t found. According to the woman who filed the complaint, the alleged harassment incident took place back in May 2016 when she used to work with Kumar. The alleged sexual harassment incident came to light after an anonymous Medium user named Indian Fowler accused Kumar of sexually harassing her at the workplace. The post is now taken down from Medium (Here is a cached version). However, TVF immediately reacted in a statement saying that “the article is completely ludicrous and defamatory against TVF and its team. All the allegations made against TVF and its team in the article are categorically false, baseless and unverified.” Below is a timeline of events leading to…
