Tejpal probe a benchmark after Delhi rape investigation: Parrikar

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today claimed the investigation into allegations of sexual assault against journalist Tarun Tejpal was another benchmark after that in the December 16 gangrape case in Delhi. “This is a benchmark investigation after the (Delhi’s) Nirbhaya case,” Parrikar said, reacting to the filing of the charge sheet against the founder-editor of Tehelka by the Goa crime branch. [caption id=“attachment_1395151” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Manohar Parrikar. AFP.[/caption] Police had done a meticulous investigation in this case, he claimed. Within 80 days of registration of the FIR, Goa police today filed a 2,684-page charge sheet against Tejpal, in jail since December 1, under sections 354, 354-A (sexual harassment), 341 and 342 (wrongful restraint), 376 (rape), 376(2)(f) and 376 (2)(k) (taking advantage of official position and raping a woman in custody) of IPC. Tejpal is accused of sexually assaulting a young woman journalist, his colleague, at a hotel here on November 7 and 8 last year. PTI