Sometime around October this year, 27-year-old Nidhi Khanna, who is in her fifth year of law practice, came across a #MeToo allegation that left her appalled. "A woman tweeted that she was sexually harassed as she was forced to give a blowjob to a man. But, what happened to her was rape," the lawyer who specialises in civil and rights based cases shares. Khanna feels several women calling out their abusers are unaware of the legal parameters and how they can seek redressal.

India's MeToo movement gained significant ground on social media in mid-September 2018 after actor Tanushree Dutta spoke up against co-actor Nana Patekar. The unprecedented outpouring of anger and solidarity took many forms, with many women taking to social media to name and shame perpetrators. Taking the cause to its legal end, over 80 lawyers from across the country volunteered on Twitter to provide pro bono legal advice to survivors. Subsequently, a directory in the form of an excel sheet with their contact details was created by Mumbai-based lawyer Rutuja Shinde and shared on multiple social media platforms.