AIB's Tanmay Bhat and Khamba step away from the association after misconduct allegations

Comedy group All India Bakchod on Monday issued a statement saying that co-founder and CEO Tanmay Bhat would be stepping away from the association "until further notice". This decision comes at the back of allegations against former AIB employee and comedian Utsav Chakraborty. 

Also, Tanmay's partner and co-founder Gursimran Khamba would be stepping away from the association along with him. 

The comedy group has accepted that they knew about comedian Utsav Chakraborty’s misbehaviour with women and still kept working on projects with him. The group shared a long post on their Facebook account, detailing how Tanmay Bhat, one of the founding members of the group, learnt of the allegations against Utsav and even confronted him about it.

Here's what their latest statement reads

“We have been closely monitoring the sequence of events on social media around the allegations against AIB and also our Co-founder and CEO, Tanmay Bhat. We cannot overlook Tanmay’s role and in light of this, he will be stepping away from his association with AIB until further notice. This implies that Tanmay will not be involved in the day to day functioning of AIB or in any other manner.

We have also just been appraised of the allegations against Gursimran Khamba on social media. At this point in time, these allegations pertain to a private matter and he has released a statement on his own about the same. However, as an organisation, we believe that it would be prudent to place Gursimran Khamba on a temporary leave of absence until we have more clarity on the matter.

We understand that disconcert of any kind adversely affects the work culture and creates an unsafe space for our employees. Nobody should have to work in an environment such as that and we hope to enable measures to establish our commitment to creating a gender sensitive workspace. We are in the process of consulting various experts to ensure that our work culture incorporates sensitivity, inclusivity, respect and fairness.

As mentioned, at this time, both of our senior partners are immediately stepping away from all business at AIB. Truthfully, we do not know what this means for the future of AIB or whether there is one. In the interim, Ashish Shakya, Rohan Joshi and other senior team members will work towards being able to answer that question over the next several months.”

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— All India Bakchod (@AllIndiaBakchod) October 8, 2018

Starting from Tanushree Dutta's allegations against Nana Patekar to the social media movement of women voicing horrifying incidents from their life, looks like the #MeToo movement has begun in India.

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