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I am being framed
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I am Being Framed, Sexual Assault Case, Tehelka office in South Delhi. A joint team of Delhi and Goa Police have arrived at the Tehelka office in South Delhi and met Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury, who has agreed to provide full cooperation to the investigative agencies.
New Delhi: Tejpal said he was being framed by political forces in the alleged sexual assault case and said the truth in the matter will come out soon. In an emailed response to a newspaper, Tejpal said: “It is a totally mendacious account of what happened, in its details, in its tonalities, in its very suggestion of non-consensus.” Tejpal further told the daily that he was getting “rock solid support from family, friends and most of my colleagues. They know the details and know how much is being dangerously falsified”. “It’s been rough and debilitating and we’ll claw our way back as the facts become clear,” he said.
Gave all info to Goa Police, says Shoma
A joint team of Delhi and Goa Police have arrived at the Tehelka office in South Delhi and met Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury, who has agreed to provide full cooperation to the investigative agencies.
Chaudhury told reporters that she has provided with all the information and documents that the police wanted. “I have given all the information demanded by Goa Police and even talked to them regarding any more help needed from my side,” Shoma Chaudhury said, refuting reports in the media that she had not been cooperative with investigators. According to the DIG, the victim in question has also been intimated by the police tea m via email that she might be required to talk to the team. “We have already emailed her. And it is everyone’s moral duty to assist in the probe,” said the DIG. Other reports suggest that the victim has agreed to cooperate with the Goa Police and record her version of the incident.
Hotel doesn’t have CCTV camera footage
In another shocking turn to the Tehelka sexual assault case, now the DIG of Goa Police has told the press that the elevator, inside which Tejpal allegedly accosted the victim, has no CCTV cameras. “The lobbies and aisles of the hotel are fitted with CCTV cameras. But there are no cameras inside the elevators,” a reporter told CNN IBN.
‘I have violated long standing relationship’
According to more emails accessed by several houses, in another letter addressed to the victim Tejpal had admitted to have ‘violated’ her trust and apologized for breaching the boundaries of dignity. A report states that in an email sent to the victim a day after she complained to managing editor Shoma Chaudhury, Tejpal aslo confessed that he had tried establishing sexual contact on two occasions – 7 November and 8 November – despite having understood that the girl did not reciprocate his intentions.
However, the victim, in reply wrote back saying, “he sexually molested me, on two separate occasions and that he violated my bodily integrity and trust”.
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