Tejpal case: Hearing delayed as lawyer tests Covid positive

Panaji: The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday postponed the hearing in the Tarun Tejpal case to December 13 after one of this lawyers said a colleague had tested positive for COVID-19. Advocate Raunaq Rao, representing Tejpal, told a division bench of Justices RevatiMohiteDere and M S Jawalkar that a lawyer briefing senior counsel Amit Desai had tested COVID-19 positive, and requested a postponement, which was granted.

Tejpal, the former editor in chief of Tehelka magazine, who was accused of sexually assaulting his then woman colleague in the lift of a five-star hotel in Goa in November 2013, was acquitted by a sessions court in May this year. The acquittal was challenged in the HC by the Goa government.