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Goa Police destroyed crucial evidence in Tarun Tejpal case, says Sessions Court, state govt to challenge acquittal

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2021

The Sessions Court observed in its verdict that the crucial two-minute footage of the lift from the first floor of the hotel was deliberately destroyed by the investigating officer.

News Reports

Goa govt to move HC against Tarun Tejpal’s acquittal, CM Pramod Sawant says won’t tolerate any wrong done to a woman

OpIndia Staff - 21 May, 2021

After a district court in Goa absolved Tarun Tejpal Goa Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said the state government will appeal against the verdict

Crime

Tarun Tejpal thanks Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid among others after being acquitted in rape case

OpIndia Staff - 21 May, 2021

Earlier, Additional Sessions Judge Kshama Joshi had reserved the verdict in the seven-year-old case.

Supreme Court defers 2009 contempt case against Prashant Bhushan, adjourns hearing to September 10

OpIndia Staff - 25 August, 2020

In an interview with Tehelka magazine in 2009, Prashant Bhushan had said that half of the past 16 CJIs had been corrupt

News Reports

Supreme Court refuses to accept ‘regret’ of Prashant Bhushan for 2009 contempt case, says proceedings will go on

OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2020

While Tejpal offered an apology for publishing the interview in 2009, Bhushan said that his allegations were not referring to the financial status of the judges or their families but the lack of propriety.

Politics

The 2005 interview of Rahul Gandhi, which embarrassed the party so much that it was declared fake and Tarun Tejpal was asked to kill...

Nupur J Sharma - 10 August, 2020

In an interview to Zee TV, Vijay Simha had detailed how his interview of Rahul Gandhi in 2005, for the Tehalka magazine was killed after Tarun Tejpal was possibly pressured by the Congress party and its senior politicians.

News Reports

’There’s a thin line between free speech and contempt that you may have crossed: SC rebukes Prashant Bhushan in 2010 contempt case

OpIndia Staff - 4 August, 2020

The said contempt case was registered against Bhushan for a 2009 interview to Tehelka magazine where he had accused the judiciary of corruption.

News Reports

Tarun Tejpal case: Bombay HC orders Mapusa court not to let defence lawyers pose irrelevant questions to the victim

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

Tejpal is charged under several sections of the IPC for sexually assaulting his junior colleague inside a lift of a resort hotel in Goa during a media event in November 2013.

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