Delhi court asked senior journalist Priya Ramani, accused by former Union minister MJ Akbar of defamation, to appear before it on February-25. It issued a-summons-to her as-an-accused. Priya Ramani and other women have accused MJ Akbar of sexual-misconduct. In the wake of these allegations and during #MeToo uprising in India he resigned as a Union Minister of State for external affairs on October-17, 2018.

Pallavi Gogoi, former reporter at Asian Age and current Chief Business Editor at National Public Radio in New York, has accused former Union Minister M J Akbar of rape, repeated sexual-abuse, violent-behaviour. Over-a-dozen women have accused the editor-turned-politician and Rajya Sabha MP of sexual-harassment but Gogoi's account, published in the Washington Post, is the first to level serious allegations of rape against him.

Pallavi Gogoi, a former reporter at The Asian Age and the current Chief Business Editor at National Public Radio in New York, has accused M J Akbar of rape, repeated sexual abuse, and violent behaviour. Over a dozen women have accused the editor-turned-politician and Rajya Sabha MP of sexual harassment but Gogoi's account, is the first to level serious allegations of rape against him.