Tehelka sexual assault case: Fully cooperated with police, says managing editor Shoma Chaudhary

Tehelka's Managing Editor Shoma Choudhury on Sunday said that she fully cooperated with the team of Goa Police in connection with the sexual assault case involving editor of the magazine Tarun Tejpal.

“The Goa police took my deposition for nine hours, and during which I fully cooperated with them”, she said.

“All the relevant documents and E-mails I had shared with my colleagues, I shared with the police. I can’t comment how much satisfied they were but it was a courteous experience for me. I hope it brings clarity, truth and justice to the case”, she added.

Goa Police on Saturday had said that Tejpal could be arrested soon in connection with a sexual harassment case.

Police said that Tejpal’s letter of apology emailed to the young woman journalist, whom he sexually assaulted, had provided them with new evidence.

Choudhury had earlier disagreed with the allegation that she was avoiding going to the police to depose on the matter.

While initially maintaining that it was not her place to go to the police, and that it was the young woman’s journalist's right to decide how to proceed on the case, Choudhury said: “The information to the media is wrong. I have sent a mail to the police. There is a lot of wrong information that is floating around. I cannot possibly be giving any evidence. I am cooperating with the Delhi Police.

Tejpal has suggested that the young journalist's version of events is not entirely accurate.

But in an email to her sent on Tuesday, he admitted to a ‘shameful lapse of judgement that led me to attempt a sexual liaison with you on two occasions on 7 November and 8 November 2013, despite your clear reluctance that you did not want such attention from me.