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The former editor has been arrested for sexually assaulting a young journalist during the annual THiNK fest conference of the magazine in Goa.
Police officials first took him to Panaji’s Voluntary Confidential Counselling And Testing Centre for a sexual potency test and then to the Institute Of Psychiatry And Human Behaviour for a medical examination. He was then brought back to the crime branch.
The police were granted custody of Tejpal for six days yesterday and the crime branch has been interrogating him. Tejpal has been booked under Sections 354A (outraging the modesty of a woman) and 376 (2)(K) (custodial rape) of IPC.






