Panaji: Tarun Tejpal, the founder-editor of Tehelka magazine, has been acquitted of rape charges by a court in Goa.
Tarun Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in 2013 on the sidelines of a conference at a five-star resort in Goa.
Issuing a statement after the verdict, Tarun Tejpal paid his tributes to his lawyer Rajiv Gomes, who died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) last week.
“Last week my trial lawyer, Rajiv Gomes, died of Covid. Dynamic and brilliant, at 47 he was on the brink of a scintillating career as a criminal lawyer at the national level. No person fought harder, and with greater skill, to reclaim my life and reputation,” he said.
Tejpal further said he was thankful for Judge Kshama Joshi, who pronounced the judgement, for ‘standing by the truth’.