Panaji, Aug. 6 -- The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday sentenced former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun 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.

The case dates back to November 2013, when a female journalist working with Tehelka accused Tejpal of sexually assaulting her inside a hotel elevator in Goa on November 7 and 8. Tejpal was arrested on November 30, 2013, and was subsequently charged in September 2017 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including rape, sexual harassment and wrongful confineme...