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| Enough proof that Tehelka's Tarun |
| Enough proof that Tehelka's Tarun Tejpal admitted to rape, says Goa police charge-sheet
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| INDIA
, 17-February-2014
5:4:26 AM |
| The Goa police have told a court that there is enough evidence that Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal admitted to raping his colleague at a five-star hotel in November.
In its charge-sheet filed before a magistrate today, the Goa police cited proof that Mr Tejpal "admitted commission of rape" in documents, including emails to the woman, and other statements.
Mr Tejpal has been charged with rape, unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures and taking advantage of one's official position for rape. If convicted, he faces a maximum of life in prison.
The charge-sheet says the woman journalist was raped by "a person whom she trusted as a fatherly figure and respected as a senior colleague."
The alleged incident, the police say, had caused "serious psychological injury to the dignity, self-esteem and overall personality of the journalist."
The charge-sheet runs into over 2,800 pages and includes the statements of 152 witnesses, including the journalist and other staff of the Tehelka magazine.
Mr Tejpal, 50, was accused by his younger colleague of sexually assaulting her at a 5-star hotel in Goa during Tehelka's ThinkFest in November. After a series of emails between the woman, Mr Tejpal and the magazine's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury were leaked, the senior editor was arrested on November 30.
He is currently in a jail in Vasco, about 40 minutes from Panaji.
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