Emraan Hashmi said it is not easy to validate the authenticity of the allegations made by women as there can be many who would jump on the MeToobandwagon to “settle scores.”He said, “It’s great that women are coming out and I am all for MeToo movement but right now it’s a very grey zone because there is no due process. A lot of these claims are authentic but there are some of them which would be for malicious intent. Men are like that. Can’t women be like that?”
The actor reiterated that discrediting Soumik from Why Cheat India would have been unfair, when he doesn’t know if the director “has done it.”
“To settle a score, you jump on the movement and you take down a man. Is that possible? It is possible. Am I defending Soumik completely? No. He has probably done it. But I can’t play the judge and throw him out just because someone has made an allegation without due process.
“I don’t know if Soumik has done it. So, I can’t sit on a throne and tell him, ‘Get out of my film. You won’t be credited for it.’ That would be unfair,” Emraan Hashmi said.
Hashmi said it’s the guidelines set by the government at workplace which should define sexual harassment rather than having a woman getting up and deciding for herself what sexual misconduct is.
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