A sexual harassment case has been lodged against the producer and CEO of Ullu App, Vibhu Agarwal, after a complaint by an employee from his organization. As reported, the Mumbai Police confirmed registering an FIR against Vibhu after the woman accused him of molesting her in the storeroom of the organization. Senior Inspector of Mumbai Police, Someshwar Kamthe of Amboli police station, mentioned that the woman was harassed on June 18 by the CEO of Ullu App, and they have also booked the company’s country head, Anjali Raina in the same case.

Now the company has issued a statement saying the complainant was a former employee against whom the firm had filed an extortion and cheating complaint in June. The company has said it had filed a complaint with Lucknow Police on June 10 in the regard. “As a counter blast and as an afterthought, after a lapse of more than 17 days and as a sheer abuse of laws in favour of women, on 5.7.2021 (the date when she was asked to appear before Lucknow police), (the former employee) has filed a false complaint accusing Ullu’s country head Anjali Raina and CEO Vibhu Agarwal of molestation,” the statement added.

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In her complaint, the woman had said that Agarwal had coerced her into removing her clothes before him after calling her to the company’s office at Lotus Business Park in Andheri (west), police said.

The FIR has been registered under sections 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 B (using criminal force on any woman or abetting such act with the intention of disrobing), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (act done with common intention by two or more persons) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)