Tarun Tejpal was accused acquitted in a sexual assault case by a sessions court in May this year. (File)
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday postponed the hearing in the Tarun Tejpal case to December 12 after one of this lawyers said a colleague had tested positive for COVID-19.
Advocate Raunaq Rao, representing Mr Tejpal, told a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and MS Jawalkar that a lawyer briefing senior counsel Amit Desai had tested COVID-19 positive, and requested a postponement, which was granted.
Mr Tejpal, the former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, who was accused of sexually assaulting his then woman colleague in the lift of a five-star hotel in Goa in November 2013, was acquitted by a sessions court in May this year.
The acquittal was challenged in the High Court by the Goa government.
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