Goa Police reach Tehelka office, seize electronic devices

NEW DELHI: A team of Goa Police officials on Saturday reached Tehelka's Delhi office and quizzed magazine's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury and other staff. TV channels reported that police officials have demanded laptops and iPads from Shoma.

Tehelka said, "It has shared all the documents requested by the Goa Police and would continue to assist with the investigations."

Earlier, Goa Police said CCTV cameras were not installed in the hotel elevator where Tejpal alleged to have sexually assaulted his junior colleague twice.

DIG O P Mishra, at a press briefing, on Saturday afternoon said that there was "no specific CCTV camera in the elevator" but the police are examining other footages.

Mishra said that they are approaching the agency that had installed the surveillance system in the hotel. "I cannot reveal any more information because investigations are on," Mishra said.

The victim in her complaint to Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury had said that Tejpal had sexually assaulted her twice in the elevator in the Club House section of the Grand Hyatt five-star resort during the high profile conference Think Fest.

Tejpal in a statement released on Friday also requested investigators to "examine and release the CCTV footage so that the accurate version of events stands clearly revealed".

Sources, however, said CCTV footage from outside the elevator does show the victim leaving the elevator "in a hurry" on one occasion.