How rules were bent for Tejpal's 200-yr-old mansion in Goa

November 27, 2013 13:10

Vigilia De Sa, 55, a local activist in North Goa's Moira village has heard of the charges of sexual assault that Tarun Tejpal faces. She is, however, more concerned with the rules the Tehelka editor-in-chief and his wife Geetan Batra bent while renovating their sprawling six-bedroom mansion 'Birdsong', two years ago.

"I'm baffled how the house got an occupancy certificate," she says. The 200-year-old mansion is located in the idyllic north Goa village which has a population of around 5,000 people.
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