Tag: Tejpal case

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday directed a Goa court to complete, within a year, the trial against Tehelka's former editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, charged with raping a junior colleague in Goa in 2013. A bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan also sought response from Goa on Tejpal's plea that there were inconsistencies in the statements recorded by the woman in the case but refused to stay the trial court's proceedings pending in Goa against Tejpal. "Let's see what reply Goa will file," it said. The bench asked...