‘If You Touch Me…’: Journalist Gargi Raut Inappropriately Touched Outside Stadium After IND vs NZ T20 World Cup 2026 Final — VIDEO

The ecstatic celebrations after India’s win against New Zealand turned into a horror as a female journalist, Gargi Raut, was inappropriately touched during a live show. What made the encounter even more horrific was that it occurred on International Women’s Day. Raut was live right outside the Narendra Modi Stadium when the incident took place. 

Raut later posted the video on her X (formerly Twitter) handle. In her tweet, she tagged the official account of Ahmedabad Police. 

Gargi Raut gets inappropriately touched

Raut, in her tweet, said, “If you put your hands on me inappropriately. I will put your face on the internet.” The female journalist was live on her digital media channel when the incident took place. “A reporter should be able to do their job without being touched inappropriately,’ Raut further said in the tweet while tagging the Ahmedabad Police.

Social media users showed their support for Gargi for calling out the incident captured on video. 

Fans are angry over the horrible incident

Cricket fans from around the country have united over the past couple of days to show their anger and dissent about the horrible incident. 

Fans and cricket pages on X (formerly Twitter) have been tagging Ahmedabad Police, calling out for action to be taken.

Fans have called out the vile act and are hoping that serious action will be taken against the man in the video.

People called out the fact that the horrible incident took place on International Women’s Day to make it even worse. 

One of the social media accounts went a step further and tagged the CM of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel. He also tagged Home Minister Amit Shah before tagging ICC and Jay Shah and the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, as well. He mentioned how such an incident “Doesn’t augur well for India’s Olympic bid.” 

One social media user was justifying the man in the video, but Raut replied to him to clarify that it was not an accidental touch. 

Gargi’s colleague, Subhayan Chakroborty, too, replied to the social media post made by her. In his reply, Chakroborty talked about how the city of Ahmedabad is being looked at as a future global city of sports. Such an incident stands in the way of Ahmedabad being the future host of the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.

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