A year after the #MeToo wave took over India’ social media after women across field came forward to share their encounters of sexual misconduct, Utsav Chakraborty, a comedian and an actor, who was accused by a co-worker for sending sexually explicit messages to her and several other women, broke his silence on Twitter.

This happened after a leaked audio clip surfaced online purportedly between the accuser’s lawyer and the comedian. The clip claims to be the conversation between Utsav and the lawyer on 14 November 2018

” ‘Why would so many women lie about one person?’ In the next few tweets, I will tackle all the malicious insinuations and abject falsehoods put forth on me either by @AGirlOfHerWords or the media frenzy that followed. Stay tuned,” the comedian started his Twitter thread.

“Why would so many women lie about one person?” In the next few tweets, I will tackle all the malicious insinuations and abject falsehoods put forth on me either by @AGirlOfHerWords or the media frenzy that followed. Stay tuned. — Utsav Chakraborty (@Wootsaw) November 21, 2019

“And before I begin, I would like to put out a public service announcement to anyone who approached Mahima Kukreja with false or malicious information about me. If you did this, please apologize or at least explain yourself publicly as to why you did what you did,” he added.

And before I begin, I would like to put out a public service announcement to anyone who approached Mahima Kukreja with false or malicious information about me. If you did this, please apologize or at least explain yourself publicly as to why you did what you did. — Utsav Chakraborty (@Wootsaw) November 21, 2019

” Okay, I’ll start. You guys remember this screenshot? It was posted by this guy called @sanilgosavi, got a tonne of retweets and basically showed how deplorable and unrelenting a creep I was. So convincing that when I first saw it, I believed it myself. Not gonna lie.”

Okay, I’ll start. You guys remember this screenshot? It was posted by this guy called @sanilgosavi, got a tonne of retweets and basically showed how deplorable and unrelenting a creep I was. So convincing that when I first saw it, I believed it myself. Not gonna lie. pic.twitter.com/jk8hynAkZK — Utsav Chakraborty (@Wootsaw) November 21, 2019

“This was a tricky one to dismiss because it was definitely my writing. Definitely the words I use to sext. Except it’s a long string of unreplied words with someone saying that they’re uncomfortable at the end. A lot of (remaining) close friends distanced from me when they saw it”

This was a tricky one to dismiss because it was definitely my writing. Definitely the words I use to sext. Except it’s a long string of unreplied words with someone saying that they’re uncomfortable at the end. A lot of (remaining) close friends distanced from me when they saw it — Utsav Chakraborty (@Wootsaw) November 21, 2019

But when I looked into it further it was clear as day. One half of the conversation was missing. What sorcery was this??!

Turns out Instagram DMs have a fun feature where you can delete your side of the convo making the other person look like a complete psycho creep.

But when I looked into it further it was clear as day. One half of the conversation was missing. What sorcery was this??! Turns out Instagram DMs have a fun feature where you can delete your side of the convo making the other person look like a complete psycho creep. pic.twitter.com/Gr6J2pIq3Z — Utsav Chakraborty (@Wootsaw) November 21, 2019

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