HC orders to give CCTV footage to Tejpal
PTI, PANAJI | 19 February 2014 14:12 IST
A court here today allowed Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal to get the CCTV footage of the five star hotel at Bambolim in north Goa, where he had allegedly raped his junior journalist colleague.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Anuja Prabhudesai ordered the court staff to hand over the copy of the CCTV footage to Tejpal by 5 PM today.
Tejpal, who is currently lodged in Sada sub jail in Vasco town, had moved an application, seeking the CCTV footage, one of the crucial evidence produced by the crime branch in the charge sheet.
Tejpal, in a statement issued last night, had accused the crime branch of hiding the crucial CCTV footage which he said could give the accurate version of the events.
"In my first and only press note of November 22, 2013 I had urged the police to obtain, examine and release the CCTV footage so that the accurate version of events stands clearly revealed," he had said.
"I said this at a time, from Delhi, when I had neither accessed nor seen the footage. But since I was the man on the spot I knew the truth of what had happened," the statement said.
"It is violative of due process, to not make all collected evidence available to the accused at the time of filing the charge sheet. In fact, receipt of the footage is what we have been impatiently waiting for since the last three months. This duplicity is in keeping with the sinister and motivated political vendetta that is being pursued," it read.
The crime branch in its charge sheet had claimed that Tejpal has admitted to the crime and the allegations against him can be corroborated with evidences like CCTV footage, documents like email exchanged between accused and victim and the statement of the witnesses.
The investigating agency has stated that "there is no CCTV footage of the incidents inside the lift."
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