Actor Payal Ghosh has issued an apology to Richa Chadha and agreed to withdraw all defamatory statements and posts against the actor. Richa had filed a defamation suit in the Bombay High Court against Payal and two others for dragging her name in the sexual harassment allegations against Anurag Kashyap.

“The Bombay high court has accepted the consent terms as an undertaking to the Hon'ble Court in the Suit with Payal Ghosh giving Richa Chadha an unconditional apology and withdrawal of all statements, defamatory posts, also including videos, and also agreeing not to state, make, publish, republish any defamatory, insulting, humiliating statements against Richa Chadda related to the subject matter of the Suit and/or any issue, dispute, complaint, suit, action, controversy, nefarious activity and/or criminal activity between Payal Ghosh and any person/party,” a statement from Richa’s legal team read.

The suit against Kamaal R Khan and a news channel, also named in the petition, will continue, the team added.

“A John Doe/Ashok Kumar order has also been granted to withdraw with immediate effect from their respective publications all defamatory statements, videos, tweets and/or defamatory statements of Payal Ghosh, the news channel and KRK,” the statement read. 

Meanwhile, Payal tweeted today, saying: