The Goa authorities has additional amended its attraction towards the acquittal of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal and filed it within the High Court of Bombay in Goa.
The authorities had urged the courtroom to take away components of the proof that don’t adjust to sections of the Indian Evidence Act, which bar the protection in a sexual assault case from mentioning any previous sexual conduct of the sufferer. It argued that the Sessions Court in its 527-page judgment had recorded the small print of the sufferer’s sexual historical past “inconsiderately and visually”.
The excessive courtroom had on June 24 given the Goa authorities time to additional amend its attraction towards the classes courtroom’s order acquitting Tejpal in a rape and sexual assault case.
Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting his then colleague within the raise of a Goa lodge on November 7, 2013 and November 8, 2013. On May 21, Additional Sessions Judge Kshama Joshi acquitted him of all fees.
Goa’s Advocate General Devidas Pangam and Additional Public Prosecutor Pravin Faldesai had advised the courtroom on June 24 that they would supply a duplicate of the additional amended attraction to the counsel for the respondent (Tejpal) inside per week. The courtroom is more likely to hear the matter additional on July 29.
The state authorities urged the courtroom to put aside the trial courtroom’s choice to acquit Tejpal, saying the trial courtroom had “lost sight of the fact that it was the respondent accused who was in the trial and not the PW1 (female woman). ) …”
“… the trial court, in its 527-page decision, has used external inadmissible material and evidence, graphic details of the victim’s past sexual history, prohibited by law and for the purposes of denigrating and defaming her character. his evidence. The entire judgment is focused on convicting the complainant witness rather than trying to ascertain the culpable role of the respondent accused,” the attraction of the state authorities, amended on July 1.
The state authorities argued that 4 protection witnesses, together with Tejpal’s household and buddies, had given the courtroom “irrelevant, inadmissible evidence of the accuser’s (woman’s) past sexual history”, which it known as “false and hateful”. He stated that these had been fantasies of Tejpal’s “perverted imagination” and seem like from his guide on erotic fiction.
The Goa authorities stated, “… the categorical and categorical denial by the prosecutor has not been taken into account by the trial court and the graphic description of an alleged sexual encounter is reprehensible and visually reproduced in detail in the judgment. “
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
