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Tarun Tejpal, 63, says that he will appeal the conviction at the Supreme Court. An Indian court has sentenced a prominent journalist to 10 years in prison for raping a junior colleague more than a decade ago, overturning an earlier acquittal . Tarun Tejpal, 62, was accused of raping a female colleague in a lift at a five-star hotel during a Tehelka magazine event in 2013. The Goa bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday also ordered Tejpal to pay a fine of $5,250. “He has been convicted to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. He has been given two weeks’ time to surrender,” Goa Police investigator Sunita Sawant, who led the investigation, told reporters.
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My lawyer wants me to request you to be lenient,” Tejpal told the court ahead of sentencing, according to the Indian legal news outlet Bar and Bench. He was later arrested and spent seven months in jail before being released on bail by the Supreme Court.
