Tehelka Controversy

The appeal comes a day after the Goa government moved the Supreme Court, challenging the Bombay High Court's order on Tarun Tejpal's sentence and seeking life imprisonment for him

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court overturned the ruling of a Sessions Court in Mapusa, which had acquitted Tejpal in the 2013 rape case.

On January 21, Justice L Nageswara Rao recused from hearing the plea as he had appeared for Goa government, as a lawyer, in 2015

Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's plea to the Bombay High Court for in-camera hearing of ongoing appeal proceedings in connection with a 2013 rape case, was rejected by the court

A sessions court in Goa will on Tuesday pronounce its verdict in case of rape trial against former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal

This was the first time the victim was present in the court for the trial, which was being held in-camera

Tarun Tejpal, founder and former editor of Tehelka magazine, has denied charges made by a former colleague.

Subramanian Swamy urges CBI and ED to register a case against Sonia Gandhi on basis of letters revealed by former Samata Party President Jaya Jaitly