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SC Orders Tarun Tejpal To Surrender Within Two Weeks

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SC Directs Tejpal To Surrender

Supreme Court orders former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal to surrender in two weeks in 2013 Goa sexual assault case.

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Challenge Against HC Verdict

This comes after he moved the apex court challenging the August 6 judgment of the Bombay high court, that had overturned a trial court's verdict acquitting him and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

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Goa Court Had Acquitted Tejpal

In 2021, a Goa sessions court acquitted him of all charges saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond all reasonable doubt.

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Case Relates To 2013 Elevator Incident

Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a woman colleague in the elevator of a hotel in Goa in November 2013.