Hearing In adult Harassment Case Against Tarun Tejpal Adjourned To October 15
Superb Courtroom adjourned listening to within the grownup harassment case towards Tarun Tejpal to October 15.
New Delhi:
The Superb Courtroom on Monday adjourned to October 15 listening to within the grownup harassment case towards former Tehelka Mag Editor Tarun Tejpal, after Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta submitted the sufferer used to be affected by lung most cancers.
A 3-judge bench of the highest court docket, headed via Justice Ashok Bhushan, mounted the subject for additional listening to to October 15 after Mr Mehta, showing for the Goa Police, submitted that the sufferer used to be affected by lung most cancers.
The bench additionally granted extra time to Tejpal, accused in a 2013 grownup attack case, to record his reaction on a plea filed via the Goa Police, in search of an extention of time for of entirety of the trial towards him.
In August ultimate 12 months, the highest court docket had refused to brush aside the fees framed via a Goa trial court docket towards Tejpal for allegedly sexually assaulting his former junior colleague in 2013.
Claiming innocence within the case, Vikas Singh, senior legal professional and previous Further Solicitor Normal (ASG) showing for Tarun Tejpal, had submitted that the court docket will have to believe on level of rate towards him, and sought quashing of the fees towards him within the case.
Tarun Tejpal, the previous Editor-in-chief of Tehelka mag and a veteran journalist, used to be accused of grownup attack via a feminine colleague in November 2013. He used to be arrested on November 30, 2013, and is recently on bail.
On September 29, 2017, a tribulation court docket in Goa had framed the rate of rape towards Tejpal in reference to an alleged rape and grownup harassment case.
The court docket charged him beneath Sections 376(2) (rape), 354 A (grownup harassment) and 342 (wrongful confinement). However, Tejpal has claimed innocence and pleaded no longer responsible.
Tejpal had then moved the highest court docket in search of the dismissal of the fees levelled towards him, on which the Superb Courtroom had on August 6, reserved its order, and later refused to brush aside fees.
