Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: In a significant setback to Tarun Tejpal, the Bombay High court at Goa has declined to hear in-camera the appeal filed by the Goa government challenging his acquittal in the rape case.
Tejpal lawyer filed a fresh application before the division bench pleading to hold the hearing in-camera and not in open court.
The bench, however, refused to consider the application at this point in time.
Earlier, too, the Goa Government had raised objection to in-camera hearing saying the “country has the right to know how the institution dealt with the victim”.
Meanwhile, Tejpal also filed an application challenging the maintainability of the appeal, which would be heard on November 16.
Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a then colleague in an elevator of a Goa hotel on November 7 and 8, 2013.
On May 21 this year, Additional Sessions Judge Kshama Joshi acquitted him of all charges. The Goa government has challenged the trial court’s judgment before the High Court of Bombay at Goa.
