Tarun Tejpal rape case: Court directs framing of charges

After 4 years of the allegation, the session court in Goa's Mapusa town on Thursday ordered that charges be framed against Tehelka's former editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal. The court has fixed the hearing for September 28th on the order of framing of charges.

Earlier, the court had granted Tejpal's plea under CrPC Section 327(2) to conduct the proceedings in the rape case in-camera.

He has been charged under Sections 354(A) (sexual harassment), 341 and 342 (wrongful restraint), and 376 (rape), among others, of the Indian Penal Code.

Tejpal has been accused of rape by a then woman colleague during an event hosted by the magazine in Goa in November 2013.

Tejpal was booked under IPC Sections 376, 376(2)(f) and 376(2) (k). Goa Police's Crime Branch presented the chargesheet on February 17, 2014.

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