Mitali Srivastava Hough announced today that she has given all three Managing Partners of Utopeia Communicationz a defamation notice after they issued a public statement with the intention of maligning her image and silencing her voice after she called out her co-founder Sudarshan Banerjee for sexual harassment.
Her statement to the press reads, "Utopeia, the company that I co-founded, and that is now headed by Sudarshan Banerjee, Krishna Padhye and Krishnaraj Bhat, recently issued a public statement defaming and maligning me after I resigned in protest at their collective dismissive attitude towards the allegations of sexual harassment against my co-founder. I have issued them a notice of defamation. I have now instituted the appropriate legal proceedings and will leave it to the court to decide the right from the wrong."