The Bombay High Court's Goa Bench has sentenced Tehelka Magazine editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal to 10 years in prison after convicting him in the 2013 rape case earlier on Thursday morning.
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The court found him guilty under various sections of the IPC. The decision came after an appeal by the Goa Government against a Sessions Court's verdict that had acquitted Tejpal. He was accused of raping a junior colleague in an elevator during the magazine's annual Thinkfest event in 2013.