Tehelka: 'Tarun Tejpal's claim of consensual act could not be true'

Panaji, Nov 25: Goa Chief Minister

has lashed out at

Editor

over the charge of a girl's

abuse, alleging that the claim that the act was consensual could not be true.

"Someone told me that this man (Tarun Tejpal) is saying that it is consensual. I wonder what he must have done within four minutes and that too in a lift," Parrikar reacted last evening addressing a function in south Goa.

He said that Tejpal by recusing himself for six months has admitted to the act.

"By taking six month recuse from his position, this man has agreed to his felony. It is unfortunate that this man wants to take sanyas and come back in six months," the chief minister said.

Tejpal by recusing himself for six months has admitted to the act: Goa CM

The Goa police have already filed first information report against Tejpal for raping and outraging modesty of the girl.

A state police team has taken the statement of Tehelka Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhary and other witnesses whom the victim had spoken to.

Parrikar said that the police are doing their duty by having filed the FIR against Tejpal, whose conduct is "inhuman".

"What he has done is inhuman," the chief minister said. Parrikar said that the incident is an indication of downgrading of educational values in the country. "I fear people will lose their interest in education and wonder as to what is the value of education," he said.

Going by this episode "one can imagine what must be going in the minds of parents while sending their daughters to outstation destinations for sports or any event accompanied by male teachers," he added.

PTI