The Supreme Courtroom at this time(August 24) stated that it’s going to cross orders on former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal’s utility for exemption from surrendering after the Bombay Excessive Courtroom convicted and sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment within the 2013 rape case.
The matter was heard by a single decide, Justice Alok Aradhe, in chambers. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal(for Tejpal) submitted that an interlocutory utility searching for exemption from surrendering be listed on August 31. Until then, Tejpal has been granted 4 weeks by the Excessive Courtroom to give up.
Alternatively, Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta(for the State of Goa) argued that the exemption utility can solely be listed if he has surrendered as per Order XX Rule 3 of the Supreme Courtroom Guidelines, 2013.
Mehta, counting on the Supreme Court judgments, acknowledged that the place the attraction has been filed, it shall state whether or not the convict has surrendered or not, and the place he has not surrendered, the attraction shouldn’t be listed except accompanied by an exemption utility from surrendering. He added that the Courtroom has energy to put off the requirement of give up.
Contemplating this, the Courtroom acknowledged that since Sibal has not addressed the deserves of the appliance searching for exemption, will probably be heard tomorrow.
This comes days after the Goa Government additionally approached the Supreme Courtroom for enhancement of punishment to life imprisonment whereas not difficult the discovering of conviction.
The Bombay Excessive Courtroom’s Goa bench, comprising Justices Neela Gokhale and Amit Jamsandekar, had on August 6 overturned Tejpal’s acquittal by the trial court and convicted him within the 2013 case. The court docket subsequently sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment.
The Excessive Courtroom had famous that the incident passed off 13 years in the past and that there was no report of any subsequent legal misconduct by Tejpal. It consequently declined the Goa authorities’s request for the utmost punishment of life imprisonment and imposed the minimal sentence prescribed for the rape conviction.
The case arose from allegations that Tejpal sexually assaulted a junior colleague inside an elevator at a luxurious resort in Goa throughout an occasion organised by Tehelka in November 2013. The Goa Classes Courtroom had acquitted him in 2021, following which the State challenged the acquittal earlier than the Bombay Excessive Courtroom.
The Excessive Courtroom convicted Tejpal beneath provisions of the Indian Penal Code referring to rape, sexual harassment and assault with intent to disrobe. The rape provision beneath which he was convicted carried a minimal punishment of 10 years and permitted a sentence extending to life imprisonment.
Case Particulars: TARUNJIT TEJPAL Vs THE STATE OF GOA|Diary No. 50909 / 2026
