New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- BJP National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday attacked the Congress over its alleged links with former Tehelka Editor-in-Chief Tarun Tejpal after he was found guilty by the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court in a 2013 rape case and sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

He questioned the silence of the Congress and other opposition parties over the matter.

On Thursday, the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court sentenced former Tejpal to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in the 2013 sexual assault case filed against him by a junior colleague, more than a decade after the alleged incident and years after his acquittal by a trial court had been challenged by the Goa government.

Addressing the press conf...