Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma fame Munmun Dutta recently broke the internet with rumors of her dating co-star Raj Anadkat, who is 9 years younger than her. The actress became fodder to memes after the news went viral.

Now, both the actors have broken their silence on the same reports. Taking to Instagram, Munmun has slammed the media for propagating false news. She has also lashed out at trolls who have been spreading ‘filth’ in the comments section of her Instagram posts.

She wrote, “To the media and their zero credibility ‘journos’, who has given u the right to post ‘imaginary’ ‘made up’ articles in people’s name about their private life without their consent? R u liable to the damage that you cause to their lives with your reckless behaviour? You don’t stop at shoving your cameras on the face of a grieving woman who just lost her love or lost her son, in a funeral, just for your trps. You can stoop to any level to create sensational articles/headlines at the cost of someone’s dignity, but are you going to take responsibility for wreaking havoc in their lives?? If no then, you should be ashamed of yourself!!”

Addressing the trolls, Munmun wrote, “To the general public, I had far better expectations from you. But the FILTH that you have showered in the comments section, even from the so-called ‘literate’ ones proves how regressive a society we are. Women are constantly age-shamed, slut-shamed, mom-shamed at the cost of your humor. Whether your humor drives someone to the edge of a mental breakdown or not, is never your concern. 13 years of entertaining people and it didn’t take 13 minutes for anyone of you to rip my dignity apart. So next time someone is clinically depressed or driven to take their own lives, pause and think whether it was YOUR WORDS that drove that person to the edge or not. Today, I am ashamed of calling myself a daughter of India.”

Raj Anadkat has also lambasted the netizens for cooking up false stories. He wrote, “To everyone, who has been constantly writing about me, Think of the repercussions that can happen in my life because of your COOKED UP (false) stories and that too about my life without my consent. All the creative people out there, please channelize your creativity somewhere else it will be helpful to you. May God bless them with good sense.”

For the unversed, a report claiming that the actors are dating surfaced on the internet earlier this week. After hearing the news, netizens had a field day as they started memes around the same.