Tarun Tejpal surrenders before Goa court, sent to Colvale jail to serve 10-year rape sentence
Panaji: Former Tehelka Editor-in-Chief Tarun Tejpal surrendered before a Goa court on Monday and was subsequently taken to Central Jail at Colvale in North Goa, weeks after the Bombay High Court convicted him in a 2013 rape case and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. The development came after the Supreme Court, on August 25, directed the 62-year-old journalist to surrender within two weeks…
Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal surrendered to a Goa court on Monday and is now being held at Central Jail in Colvale to serve a 10-year rape sentence. The conviction and sentence came after the Bombay High Court overturned his 2021 acquittal, upholding the 2013 conviction for rape and other offenses under the Indian Penal Code.
Tejpal, 62, had been granted two weeks by the Supreme Court to surrender, following which he would be heard on the merits of his appeal. He was directed to surrender by September 22, after which his sentence would begin. The case stems from allegations of sexual assault made by a junior colleague in an elevator of a Goa hotel in 2013.
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