New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Goa government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal's 10-year jail term to life imprisonment, contending that the minimum sentence imposed by the Bombay High Court was "grossly disproportionate" to the gravity of the aggravated rape offences committed by him against a junior colleague. In its special leave petition filed against the August 6 judgment convicting Tejpal, the state has also challenged the HC's decision to make the sentences for the two aggravated rape convictions run concurrently, arguing that the two sexual assaults took place on successive days and represented "separate criminality" that ought to be reflected in the punishment. The State has made it clear that it is not challenging Tejpal's conviction by the High Court, which overturned his acquittal by the trial court. Its challenge before the Supreme Court is confined to the quantum of sentence and the direction that the sentences run concurrently. The petition argues that the HC itself recorded several aggravating circumstances which, according to the state, warranted a sentence higher than the statutory minimum of 10 years. These include Tejpal's position as the victim's employer, mentor and a friend of her father, as well as the fact that he was the father of her close friend. The HC had found that he occupied a position of "dominance, control, trust and authority" over the woman. "The sentence imposed is grossly disproportionate to the nature and gravity of the offences committed by the Respondent," the state has told the SC, seeking enhancement to life imprisonment or such other enhanced sentence as the court may deem appropriate. The High Court on August 6 had convicted Tejpal....