Live! Tarun Tejpal sent to jail for 12 days

December 11, 2013 11:09

JUST IN: Tarun Tejpal sent to 12-day judicial custody. A Goa court on Wednesday sent Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal to judicial custody for 12 days.

Tejpal's police custody expired on Wednesday.

He has been charged under several Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections including 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 376 (2) (f) and 376 C of.

A woman journalist employed with Tehelka had accused Tejpal of sexually assaulting her twice on November 7 and 8 in a lift in a five star hotel in Goa.

He has already been booked under Sections 354A (outraging the modesty of a woman) and 376 (2)(K) (custodial rape) of IPC.

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