Apologies accepted, Ms Kavitha Reddy. I hope we are going to all switch forward from the incident: Samyuktha Hegde
Bengaluru:
Congress chief Kavitha Reddy and Kannada film actress Samyuktha Hegde on Monday appeared to have buried their hatchet with the latter accepting the earlier’s apology over alleged assault and abuse, over which police have registered a case in direction of the politician.
A day after Ms Reddy tendered the unconditional apology for her actions in questioning the actress doing hula-hooping workout at a park wearing workout clothes, Ms Hegde talked about she accepted it and expressed the hope of shifting away from the incident.
On September 4, Ms Reddy had allegedly assaulted Ms Hegde inside the park for not carrying “first fee” clothes collectively together with her outbursts seen as an act of moral policing.
The outraged actress had later posted a video of the incident on her Twitter cope with and wrote: “It is extreme time that society stops harassing women for what we placed on, the place we go and what we do.”
Based totally on a grievance from the actress that Ms Reddy had outraged her modesty and assaulted her, a case has been registered in direction of the Congress chief beneath quite a few sections of the Indian Penal Code, the police talked about on Monday.
Ms Reddy in her apology on Sunday has talked about: “No person has the right to tell a girl what to placed on and the way in which to behave.”
“I’ve always opposed Moral Policing. I realise that my actions have been construed as such. An argument ended up in me reacting aggressively as properly, it was a mistake,” she had tweeted, together with she would take down her social media posts regarding the incident.
Ms Hegde was cautious in her response.
“Apologies accepted, Ms Kavitha Reddy. I hope we are going to all switch forward from the incident and make women actually really feel safe everywhere,” Ms Hegde tweeted.
The actress, nonetheless, well-known that Ms Reddy has not taken down any of her posts regarding the event as quoted in her apology even after plenty of hours.
