Goemkaponn Desk
PANAJI: The Goa government on Tuesday challenged the acquittal by a sessions court of Tehelka magazine founder editor Tarun Tejpal in the sexual assault case in the Bombay High Court.
On May 21, a sessions court in Goa had acquitted Tejpal of the charge of sexually assaulting a former woman colleague inside the elevator of a luxury hotel in the state in 2013.
Following which, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had said that the state government will appeal against the verdict in the High Court.
The Goa Police subsequently registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Tejpal for various offences including rape.
He was arrested in November 2013 and later released on bail in July 2014.
The trial against Tejpal commenced in 2017. In the meanwhile, he had moved the Bombay High Court for quashing the case against him, claiming that the charges were fabricated.
The High Court had dismissed the plea after which he appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court also refused to interfere and rejected his petition on August 19, 2019