Bombay HC to hear Goa government's appeal challenging Tarun Tejpal's acquittal

June 02, 2021 08:32

The Goa bench of the Bombay high court will today hear a petition filed by the Goa government against former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal's acquittal in a rape case. Tejpal was deemed 'not-guilty' by a fast-track court on May 21 in a judgement that has been called perverse and influenced by extraneous inadmissible materials and testimonies by the Goa government.

The 58-year-old former journalist was accused of raping a colleague in an elevator of a five-star hotel in Goa during a Tehelka magazine event in 2013.

According to the complainant, Tejpal raped the woman inside the lift of the hotel on November 7, 2013 and attempted to assault her again the next day. Tejpal, who refuted the charges in court and was subsequently acquitted, had been out on bail since 2014.

The Goa government seeks a re-trial based on the trial court's "lack of understanding of a victim's post-trauma behaviour". In its verdict, the court suggested that the woman did not behave in a manner consistent with a victim of sexual assault.

The printouts of photographs clearly proves that the prosecutrix was absolutely in a good mood, happy, normal and smiling at the time she did not look distressed or traumatized in any manner whatsoever though this was immediately a few minutes after she claims to have been sexually assaulted by the accused putting her in a state of panic and trauma, the verdict said.

The appeal was filed before the high court last week and amended this week to bring on record the judgment.

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