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Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal, who was asked to appear before the Goa police by 3 pm on Thursday, has sought more time to present himself before the crime branch investigating the complaints of sexual assault by him against a woman journalist colleague earlier this month.
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Tejpal wrote a letter to the Goa police saying he would appear before it on Saturday afternoon, his counsel Sandeep Kapur said. In the letter, the Tehelka Editor said, “I am ready to cooperate with Goa police in investigation.” His counsel said Tejpal would not move the Supreme Court for any relief. Earlier, the Goa police expected Tejpal to present himself before it, but later DGP Kishan Kumar said he has sought time since he had received the police summons only on Thursday morning. The DGP refused to answer a question whether the Goa police would get a non-bailable warrant issued against him. Tejpal, who failed to get any immediate relief on his anticipatory bail petition in the Delhi High Court, was on Wednesday summoned by the Goa police to appear before it in connection with the probe in the case. Accused of attempting a cover up, Shoma Chaudhury resigned as Managing Editor of Tehelka earlier on Thursday. The victim, a former journalist of Tehelka, who was allegedly sexually assaulted in a lift in a five-star hotel in Goa earlier this month, arrived in Panaji on Wednesday and recorded her statement under Section 164 of CrPC before a local court. | |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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