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Tarun Tejpal (born 15 March 1963) is an Indian journalist, publisher, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine. In November 2013, he stepped down as editor for six months after a female colleague accused him of sexual assault.
May 21, 2021 · Tarun Tejpal, former editor-in-chief of investigative tabloid Tehelka, was on Friday acquitted by the District and Sessions Court at Mapusa in North Goa in a 2013 sexual assault case. Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague inside the elevator of a luxury hotel in Goa in November 2013.
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May 21, 2021 · An Indian court has cleared Tarun Tejpal, the former editor of Tehelka magazine, of charges of raping a colleague. His unnamed accuser had alleged that he assaulted her in an elevator at a...
The Wire reports on the controversial judgment of a Goa court that cleared the journalist and founder of Tehelka of all charges of sexual assault. The article critiques the judge's reasoning and the impact of the verdict on the survivor and the #MeToo movement.
Jun 5, 2021 · The Tarun Tejpal case is a watershed, wedged between two significant milestones in cases of sexual violence against women—the December 2012 gangrape and murder of 23-year-old ‘Nirbhaya’ in New Delhi and the 2017 global #MeToo movement.
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May 21, 2021 · The former editor of Tehelka magazine, known for his investigative journalism, was accused of assaulting a female colleague in 2013. He denied the charges and spent seven months in jail before being acquitted by a Goa court in 2021.
Author and journalist Tarun Tejpal, who wrote The Alchemy of Desire (2006), The Story of My Assassins (2010) and The Valley of Masks (2011) is back with a new novel called The Line of Mercy...
