Sexist Outlook

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/07/2015

Outlook has earned a legal notice with its highly suggestive gossip item on a junior bureaucrat in CM KC Rao’s office in Telangana. It said what exactly she did there was a puzzle but she wore lovely saris and served as eye candy at meetings. And knew exactly what time the CM would arrive and leave office. They did not name her, but the officer, Smita Sabharwal, has responded with a five page legal notice which calls the item slanderous and baseless and demands an equally visible apology on the pages of the magazine. The News Minute.

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