High-profile Indian journalist jailed for 10 years for raping colleague

A court in India has convicted Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka magazine, of raping a junior colleague, sentencing him to ten years in prison and overturning his earlier acquittal. The Guardian reports the case dates back to a 2013 incident at a hotel in Goa and drew nationwide attention in India; Tejpal had spent seven months in jail before the supreme court granted him bail.

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