Indian journalist Tarun Tejpal convicted in 2013 rape case

But as the case escalated, he issued a statement urging authorities to examine the CCTV footage "so the accurate version of events stands clearly revealed". He also alleged that the case against him was part of a "political vendetta" by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Goa.Tehelka, the magazine Tejpal co-founded in 2000, had published a number of scoops, many of them based on sting operations.Some of these stories - including Operation West End in which some of its journalists posed as arms dealers, secretly filming senior army officials, bureaucrats and even the president of the then ruling BJP taking bribes to push through a fake deal - created national and international ripples.Tejpal was arrested in 2013 and spent seven months in jail until the Supreme Court granted him bail.In 2021, a sessions court in Goa threw out all the charges against him. But the judge's observations in the 527-page order had sparked criticism after she questioned the behaviour of the survivor..In photographs taken shortly after the assault, the judge wrote, the young woman was "smiling and looked happy, normal, in [a] good mood"."She did not look disturbed, reserved, terrified or traumatised in any way even though this was immediately after she claims to have been sexually assaulted," the order said. Some lawyers told the BBC that the judgment itself seemed like "an assault on the survivorThe Goa government had appealed against this judgment in the high court. Appearing for the Goa government, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged the high court to impose the maximum sentence on Tejpal.