Tehelka is a warning

Following his eventual arrest in Goa on Saturday, November 30, the rape and sexual assault case against Tarun Tejpal, the founder and editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, has formally begun. The facts are well known: the hypocrisy and contradictory explanations offered by Tejpal and the Tehelka management; the meticulous documentation of the crime, its circumstances and the aftermath by the young woman at the heart of the matter; the fact that Tejpal and his confidantes realised only when it was too late that they were dealing with an aggrieved individual who was working to a strategy and to solid legal advice and would not be assuaged with purple prose.

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