Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal approaches the Supreme Court seeking his release to attend the cremation of his mother who passed away in Goa yesterday.

Tejpal's mother Shakuntala passed away after being ill for sometime, his lawyer said on Monday. She was 87. She was suffering from brain tumour and was living in Tejpal's house at Moira in North Goa.

"She expired last evening at Tejpal's Goa residence. The decision is yet to be taken whether the final rites would be conducted in Goa or Delhi,' Tejpal's lawyer Sandip Kapoor said, adding that the family members will take a call on it.

She had been admitted to a hospital in Mapusa but was later discharged. Tejpal's lawyers are going to move the fast track court in Panaji seeking permission to allow him to perform the final rites.