Tehelka sets up committee to probe sexual assault case

November 22, 2013 01:06

Tehelka magazine has constituted a "complaints committee" to probe the alleged sexual assault by its Editor Tarun Tejpal on a woman journalist colleague as attack on the magazine mounted over its attempts to treat the case as an internal matter.

Tehelka's Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury said the complaints committee, headed by publisher Urvashi Butalia, will investigate the matter.

"In furtherance to Tehelka's acceptance of Tarun Tejpal's recusal from editorship of Tehelka on November 20, which followed the official unconditional apology he had mailed to the journalist concerned on November 19, Tehelka has now constituted a formal complaints committee, in accordance to Vishaka guidelines, to be presided over by Urvashi Butalia, eminent feminist and publisher, to investigate the matter," Chaudhury said in a statement.

She said other members of the committee will be announced shortly.

"In addition to this, Tehelka will ensure setting up a formal complaints committee, according to section 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013), an institutional mechanism that was sorely missing in Tehelka," Chaudhury said.

There has been crticism against the magazine as it did not have an internal committee to go into cases of sexual assault against women employees as mandated under the Supreme Court judgement in the Visakha case.

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