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mid-day Impact: Anu Malik told to step down by Indian Idol
Updated On: 21 October, 2018 04:40 PM IST | Mumbai | Sonil Dedhia
Even as show source reveals that Indian Idol judge Anu Malik will not report on set, another woman calls him out. NY-based producer Danica D'Souza recounts witnessing harassment

Anu Malik
Another woman has outed veteran music composer Anu Malik after four women have accused him of sexual harassment in the last two weeks. Danica D'Souza, 30, a Mumbai resident, now stationed in New York as Design and Operations Director for The Laura Flanders Show, said she knew of at least two women who had similar experiences with Malik when she was assistant producer with FreemantleMedia India on reality singing show Indian Idol's season 5. D'Souza's LinkedIn profile states that she worked with the firm from February 2010 to August 2011. The firm was producing the show for Sony TV, and Malik had been a judge since season 1 in 2004.
"It was one of my first big assignments in the reality television space. I was an assistant producer on the show and the first incident involving Anu Malik I came across was during the audition rounds held somewhere around April-May 2010," D'Souza told mid-day in a telephonic interview, after reading this paper's exclusive report dated October 19 about two singing aspirants accusing Malik of harassment.

