Tejpal rape trial: Judgement postponed due to lack of staff
The judgement was originally scheduled to be pronounced on April 27 but was adjourned to May 12.
The judgement was originally scheduled to be pronounced on April 27 but was adjourned to May 12.
Tejpal has been accused of sexually assaulting a junior female colleague in the elevator of a hotel in north Goa during an event in November 2013.
The contempt case involves statements that Prashant Bhushan made during an interview to Tehelka magazine in 2009, in which he said half the 16 Chief Justices of India were corrupt.
The genesis of this case lies in a sting operation conducted by a news website Tehelka in 2000-2001 termed 'Operation Westend' to expose the corruption in defence procurement deals in India. Tehelka had made the operation public in mid-March 2001.
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